单词 | et al |
释义 | et al (once / 4017 pages) adv The scholarly et al. means "and others." Say you’ve got an article written by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. You can take a scholarly shortcut and refer to them as "Crosby et al.." The phrase is an abbreviation for the Latin et alii. You don't need a period after et, since that's the whole word, but you do need a period with al.. Something else you need to know is that you don't use a comma between the proper name and the abbreviation, just as you wouldn't use a comma if you were writing "Crosby and others." And one last thing: you don't usually italicize et al., even though it's Latin. WORD FAMILYet al USAGE EXAMPLESThe attackers’ manifest inferiority to Jones et al in terms of intelligence or comedy was of no account. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) McCrory, et al. to overturn the ruling at the court level, and these regulations will slow down future challenges to discrimination. Salon(Dec 17, 2016) In doing so he broke the rules of politics with extreme comments about his opponents, his critics, et al. Slate(Dec 08, 2016) 1adv and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people) the data reported by Smith et al. Syn et al., et alia, et aliae, et alii 2adv and elsewhere (used when referring to other occurrences in a text) Syn et al., et alibi |
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