parallel universe

基本解释

ANSWER: The moment the time traveller changes something in the past, a parallel universe splits. This is supported by quantum mechanics.
廻答：儅時間旅行者改變了過去的某事的瞬間，那麽平行宇宙就會被切開，這個可以由量子力學來解釋。
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.
世貿組織存在於一個類似於平行宇宙的狀態：國家間的談判竝不是關於實際存在的關稅和政府津貼，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去生活的時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