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五、并列平行结构 它表示意义上的并列或相似关系。表示并列关系的词语为and, similarly, like, just as, also, etc. 例一：A childs birthday party does not have to be a hassle; it can be a basket of fun, according to Beth Anacleria, an Evaston mother of two, aged 4 and 18 months. 分号前后为两个并列平行的分句，后一句意为生日聚会可以充满快乐、乐趣，我们可以推测hassle意为混乱。 例二：First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Polytechnique. baffled 和beaten为并列平行关系，根据beaten可以推测出baffled意为难倒，使受挫，阻碍之意。 例三：John loves to talk, and his sisters are similarly loquacious. 根据and和similarly判定短语loves to talk 和loquacious.之间为同义比较，意为健谈的。 六、因果关系 它也是推测词义的一种重要方式。我们可以通过结果推测原因，亦可通过原因推测结果。 例句：The girl began to feel homesick because she had been away from her family for years. | 
