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- a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part附属物, 附件, 辅助物:
computer technology is an adjunct to learning.
电脑技术是学习的帮手。
1.1
- a person who is another's assistant or subordinate帮手, 助手。
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- Grammar a word or phrase, typically an adverbial, that constitutes an optional element or is considered of secondary importance in a sentence, for example on the table in we left some flowers on the table【语法】附加语, 修饰语(如 we left some flowers on the table中的on the table)。
2.1
- (in some systemic Grammar) an obligatory or optional adverbial functioning as a constituent of clause structure(某些系统语法用语)副词状语。
attrib.
1- connected or added to something, typically in an auxiliary way附属的, 辅助的:
other alternative or adjunct therapies include immunotherapy.
其他供选择的或辅助的疗法包括免疫疗法。
1.1
- N. Amer. (of an academic post) attached to the staff of a university in a temporary or assistant capacity〈北美〉(大学教师职位)临时的, 副的:
an adjunct professor of entomology.
昆虫学副教授。
派生词
adjunctive
adjective词源
early 16th cent. (as an adjective meaning 'joined on, subordinate'):from Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere (see ADJOIN).