corollary

noun
🔊/kəˈrɒləri/
🔊/ˈkɔːrəleri/
(formal or specialist)
(plural corollaries)
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  1. corollary (of/to something) a situation, an argument or a fact that is the natural and direct result of another one必然的结果(或结论)
    • In rural areas, the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in the provision of public transport.在农村地区,增加汽车拥有量的必然结果是公共交通的提供迅速减少。
    Topics Change, cause and effectc2, Opinion and argumentc2
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin corollarium ‘money paid for a garland or chaplet; gratuity’ (in late Latin ‘deduction’), from corolla, diminutive of corona ‘wreath, crown, chaplet’.