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auxiliary

/awg-zil-yuh-ree, -zil-uh-/US // ɔgˈzɪl yə ri, -ˈzɪl ə- //UK // (ɔːɡˈzɪljərɪ, -ˈzɪlə-) //

辅助性,辅助性的,辅助的,辅助

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : additional; supplementary; reserve: an auxiliary police force.
    • : used as a substitute or reserve in case of need: The hospital has an auxiliary power system in case of a blackout.
    • : having an engine that can be used to supplement the sails: an auxiliary yawl.
    • : giving support; serving as an aid; helpful: The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other. Passion is auxiliary to art.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural aux·il·ia·ries.

    • : a person or thing that gives aid of any kind; helper.
    • : an organization allied with, but subsidiary to, a main body of restricted membership, especially one composed of members' relatives: The men's club and the ladies' auxiliary were merged into one organization.
    • : auxiliary verb.
    • : auxiliaries, foreign troops in the service of a nation at war.
    • : Navy. a naval vessel designed for other than combat purposes, as a tug, supply ship, or transport.
    • : Nautical. a sailing vessel carrying an auxiliary propulsion engine or engines.

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Examples

  • Yet their ability to create layups and open threes in transition helps keep auxiliary scoring options involved, and both are capable of drawing double teams and finding the open man.

  • The app would help enrol and deploy the 154,000 auxiliary nurse midwives for delivering the vaccine, according to the health ministry’s plan.

  • For the Great American Beer Festival, which regularly draws 60,000 people to Denver, organizers pivoted to a virtual event this year after their usual home was designated an auxiliary field hospital.

  • The former auxiliaries are now fully fleshed-out character brands and the marketing cornerstones of billion-dollar franchises.

  • Context has always been an auxiliary marketing tool – creating demand, brand, remarketing.

  • We retooled music, which sounds sort of small and auxiliary, but I think we figured out a way to help the audience.

  • None of this will be easily accomplished, and America has only an auxiliary role.

  • General Monet operated in the north against the rebels with Spanish and native auxiliary forces.

  • The stars were auxiliary lights, and had all been specially, and at the same time, created for the good of man.

  • In Preston we have three churches, besides an auxiliary chapel, wherein priests of the Jesuit order labour.

  • She behaved nobly, but with her small auxiliary steam power she could scarcely hold her own.

  • For a very long period the schools in connection with St. Mary's have formed an excellent auxiliary of the church.