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- providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system辅助的：
ancillary staff such as radiotherapists.
放射治疗技师等辅助员工。
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- additional; subsidiary附带的; 附属的：
paragraph 19 was merely ancillary to paragraph 16.
19段只不过是附随于16段。
(pl. -ies)
1- a person whose work provides necessary support to the primary activities of an organization, institution, or industry辅助性员工, 助理人员：
the employment of specialist teachers and ancillaries.
专科教师及助理人员的聘用。
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- something which functions in a supplementary or supporting role附属物：
undergraduate courses of three main subjects with related ancillaries.
三门主干课程及相关附属科目组成的本科教程。
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin ancillaris, from ancilla 'maidservant'.