英 [ˈfʊtnəʊt] 美 [ˈfʊtnoʊt]
n. 脚注；补充说明
vt. 给……作脚注；在脚注里评议
复数footnotes
第三人称单数footnotes
现在分词footnoting
过去式footnoted
过去分词footnoted
footnote /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/ TEM4
可数名词 A footnote is a note at the bottom of a page in a book which provides more detailed information about something that is mentioned on that page. 脚注
可数名词 If you refer to what you are saying as a footnote, you mean that you are adding some information that is related to what has just been mentioned. 补充说明
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
作为补充说明，我应该再加一点，他表现得过于逞强。
可数名词 If you describe an event as a footnote, you mean that it is fairly unimportant although it will probably be remembered. 次要的事物
I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
我认为，他的名字在历史中恐怕将变得不再重要。
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Js和CSS实现脚注(Footnote)效果,阅读Js和CSS实现脚注(Footnote)效果, 脚注（Footnote）是向用户提供更多信息的一个最佳途径，也是主体信息的一个有效补充，常见于各种印刷书籍中。
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脚注；补充说明
I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
我认为，他的名字在历史中恐怕将变得不再重要。
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
作为补充说明，我应该再加一点，他表现得过于逞强。
A footnote is made at the bottom of the page.
注脚列在书页下端。
I thought that we'd begin then by turning to page 731, the left-hand column, the footnote.
现在我们可以开始了，翻到731页，看到左手边那一栏的脚注。
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
It's never gonna get recorded in the history books, but it might be worth a footnote somewhere.
我们的贡献不会被记载在史书中，但我觉得也能算得上是脚注吧。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
So first I want to read to you the footnote to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland.
首先给你们读一段艾略特的《荒原》的脚注。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Well, someone said, why not drop the complicated definition and just leave the footnote?
The revised figures also contain an important footnote: "This now excludes departmental meetings in Cardiff".
Footnote: until the next calamity has completed engineering validation, the market is free to move up.