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."
and elsewhere (used when referring to other occurrences in a text)
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用作缩略词(abbr.)
The concert included works by Tchaikovsky et al.音乐会上演出了柴可夫斯基等人的作品。
Marx, Engels, Lenin and their main disciples and co-thinkers like Rosa Luxemburg, Trotsky, Gramsci, Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Bukharin et al.马克思，恩格斯，列宁和他们的主要弟子和合作的思想家一样，罗莎卢森堡，托洛茨基，葛兰西，奥托宝华，鲁道夫希尔弗丁，布哈林等人。
