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　

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

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。

noun

verb

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

The explanation in the footnote clarified the difficult sentence.
注脚的解释澄清这一个困难的句子。
Click Convert to footnote or convert to endnote.
单击“转换为脚注”或“转换至尾注”。
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。
Double-click the footnote or endnote number to return to the reference mark in the document.
双击脚注或尾注编号，返回到文档中的引用标记。
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。
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。
Any comments on the quotation should be in the text or in a footnote.
关于引用语的任何评论应该放在文本之中或脚注之中。
Footnote: This guideline is currently under discussion.
脚注：这指南是目前在讨论中。
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。