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　

TOEFLTEM8计算机

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

• Now I think that they make their most effective case in a footnote.
  现在我想，它们在一个脚注中最有效。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Be sure to footnote both argument and evidentiary citations.
  务必要记得，在引用不同论点和证据时，要加上注脚。
• Use standard footnote conventions, giving full bibliographic information for all sources you cite.
  用标准的脚注方法，给出你所引的所有资料详细的书目信息。并提供一份含有相关信息的书目。
• Asterisk a word that requires a footnote.
  将需要脚注的字加以星号。
• 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。
• A footnote is made at the bottom of the page.
  注脚列在书页下端。