corollary

英語

詞源

源自中古英語，源自晚期拉丁語 corōllārium (「為花冠支付錢；禮物，酬金；推導」)，源自corōlla (「小花冠」)，corōna (「冠，王冠」)的指小詞。

發音

• IPA^(幫助)：/kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
• (美國) 英語發音：kôr'əlĕrē、IPA^(幫助)：/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
• (澳大利亞) IPA^(幫助)：/kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/

• （英國南部）音頻

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名詞

corollary (複數 corollaries)

1. 附贈品，多給的物品
2. 順便做的事情，順水推舟達成的結果

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.

   翻修整個商店的時候終於能順便把那個破窗修了。

3. (數學，邏輯學) 推論

   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

   我們證明了這個集合有窮有序，進而推導出，存在一個它到自然數的保序映射。

衍生詞彙

• subcorollary

形容詞

corollary (無比較級)

1. 順水推舟的，順便的
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, 「Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers」, 出自 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI，頁號 11:

     However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. (罕用) 構成推論的

延伸閱讀

• 「corollary」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• 「corollary」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587