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。
• The market value of the investment,$ 2, is disclosed in footnotes to the financial statements.
  投资的市价（2美元）在财务报表的注释中列示。
• Use footnotes, not endnotes.
  使用脚注，而不是尾注。
• 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。
• Footnotes or endnotes must start at 1 if numbering is not continuous.
  如果编号不连续，则脚注或尾注必须从1开始。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are not liabilities, but, if material, they are disclosed in footnotes to the financial statements.
  它们不是企业的负债，但如果金额较大，它们应在财务报表的附注中揭示。
• You can do so through footnotes, a bibliography, or some other kind of scholarly device.
  你可以透过附注、参考书目或其他学术性工具方式交待。
• We also use footnotes for definitions of elementary terms that an experienced programmer is unlikely to need.
  我们同样使用脚注来定义基本术语，有经验的程序员可能不需要这些定义。