footnote

英 [ˈfʊtnəʊt]

美 [ˈfʊtnoʊt]

n.  脚注; 次要者

复数：footnotes　过去式：footnoted　现在分词：footnoting　第三人称单数：footnotes　过去分词：footnoted　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10295 / COCA.10131

牛津词典

noun

• 脚注
  an extra piece of information that is printed at the bottom of a page in a book
• 次要者
  that may be remembered but only as sth/sb that is not important

柯林斯词典

• 脚注
  Afootnoteis a note at the bottom of a page in a book which provides more detailed information about something that is mentioned on that page.
• N-COUNT 补充;补充的信息
  If you refer to what you are saying as afootnote, you mean that you are adding some information that is related to what has just been mentioned.
  1. As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
     我补充一句，他有时表现得过分逞强。
• N-COUNT 无关紧要的事;次要事件
  If you describe an event as afootnote, you mean that it is fairly unimportant although it will probably be remembered.
  1. I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
     恐怕他的名字现在会成为历史的注脚。

英英释义

noun

• a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
  Synonym:footer

verb

• add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  1. The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel
  Synonym:annotate

双语例句

• Click Convert to footnote or convert to endnote.
  单击“转换为脚注”或“转换至尾注”。
• Asterisk: Reference mark used in the text to indicate a footnote.
  星号：在正文中用来表示脚注的附注符号。
• In a few years of recent, this company is a footnote nevertheless.
  在最近的几年里，这家公司不过是一个脚注。
• The CHS notation is almost a historical footnote today, because it's a24-bit number.
  今天，CHS标记法几乎成为了老古董，因为它是一个24位的数字。
• Where more than one citation is given in a single footnote, separate them with semi-colons.
  在一个脚注中多于一个引证，用分号隔开。
• I'd rather you not refer to Tom as a footnote.
  我建议你别和汤姆说这只是脚注。
• I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
  恐怕他的名字现在会成为历史的注脚。
• Index not allowed in footnote, endnote, header, footer, or comment.
  脚注、尾注、页眉、页脚或批注中不允许有索引。
• The superscript footnote marker comes last, after both the punctuation and the closing quotation mark.
  脚注标记的上标在最后，即标点符号和后引号之后。
• A lengthy footnote to the last three sections of this chapter.
  给本章最后三节所加的一个很长的脚注。