剑桥词典abbreviation for et alia : and others . It is used in formal writing to avoid a long list of names of people who have written something together. 以及其他人；等人；等等（et alia的縮寫） The method is described in an article by Feynman et al. 該方法在範曼等人的一篇文章中有所介紹。 返回 et al.