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

• I noticed that the author of our textbook frequently referred by footnote to these library books.
  我还注意到，从图书馆借来的这些书，恰是课本的著者经常在脚注中提到的。
• You can insert a footnote only in the main body of a document.
  您只可以在文档的正文中插入脚注。
• 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。
• 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。
• Click View footnote area or view endnote area, and then click ok.
  请单击“查看脚注区”或“查看尾注区”，然后单击“确定”按钮。
• 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。
• 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。
• Asterisk a word that requires a footnote.
  将需要脚注的字加以星号。
• The explanation in the footnote clarified the difficult sentence.
  注脚的解释澄清这一个困难的句子。