footnotes

英 [ˈfʊtnəʊts]

美 [ˈfʊtˌnoʊts]

n.  脚注; 次要者
footnote的复数

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。

双语例句

• It helps to explain, also, why my wife left in the text the many references to Chinese classics which Fei put there and introduced in the footnotes some explanations of some of these references.
  这也有助于解释为什么我夫人在正文中保留了费先生引用的众多中国古典文献，并在脚注中对其中一部分加以解释说明。
• Creates a main frame with footnotes underneath it. Hyperlinks in the main frame change the footnotes.
  创建一个主要框架，再在其下方创建脚注。脚注的内容将随着主要框架上的超链接的改变而改变。
• We have made a few verbal changes in the editor's notes and the footnotes to the three instalments of the material.
  我们对三篇材料的按语和注文，作了少数文字上的修改。
• My footnotes friends leaded me to you and I suppose we can do good business in the future.
  我的脚注朋友将我引荐给你，我希望我们将来在生意上能有好的合作。
• Footnotes illuminated the difficult passage of the text.
  脚注解释了课文中难解的段落。
• Comments, endnotes and footnotes can only be added to the main story.
  批注、尾注和脚注只能添至文档的主体部分。
• Use footnotes, not endnotes.
  使用脚注，而不是尾注。
• Another point to remember is to avoid placing too much information in annexes and footnotes; only a few readers will consult these.
  另外一点是记住，避免在附件和脚注中放置过多信息。没有几个读者会看这些内容。
• His liking for footnotes might have suited him to be an historian.
  他喜欢考据，当个历史学家也挺合适。
• This is the last footnote I'll be calling your attention to this semester, and it's, like all footnotes, perhaps the most telling thing in the essay.
  这是本学期，最后一个我让你们注意的脚注，像所有脚注一样，或许它是这篇论文中最生动的。