parallel universe

基本解釋

ANSWER: The moment the time traveller changes something in the past, a parallel universe splits. This is supported by quantum mechanics.
回答：當(dāng)時(shí)間旅行者改變了過(guò)去的某事的瞬間，那么平行宇宙就會(huì)被切開，這個(gè)可以由量子力學(xué)來(lái)解釋。
The WTO inhabits a sort of parallel universe in which countries negotiate not on what tariffs and subsidies will actually be, but on maximum (or “bound”) rates and amounts.
世貿(mào)組織存在于一個(gè)類似于平行宇宙的狀態(tài)：國(guó)家間的談判并不是關(guān)于實(shí)際存在的關(guān)稅和政府津貼，而是最高稅率或是邊際金額。
Many Bulgarians used to joke that they lived in an Egyptian dynasty set up in a parallel universe.
許多保加利亞人笑侃他們過(guò)去生活的時(shí)代是平行宇宙中的埃及王朝。

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(in stories) a world that exists in addition to, and is like, the world that we know, but that is also different from it in important ways