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Helping or supporting the main thing, without being the most important part itself — extra staff, equipment, or services that make the main activity work. It's a fairly formal word, often heard in hospitals, businesses, and schools.
輔助的；附屬的
組成From Latin "ancilla," meaning "a servant" — something ancillary "serves" the main thing, like a helper.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ancillaryadj/ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹiː/
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Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary.
- […] how easily he took all things along with him,—the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man.
- [E]very organ of the body, whatever function it may perform, must also perform the other four functions in an ancillary manner.
ancillarynoun/ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹiː/
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Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
- Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.
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archaicAn auxiliary.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。