footnote
n. 腳註; 補充說明
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.
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.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
我補充一句,他有時表現得過分逞強。
If you describe an event as a footnote, you mean that it is fairly unimportant although it will probably be remembered.
I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
恐怕他的名字現在會成為歷史的註腳。
1. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
1. add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments;
Be sure to footnote both argument and evidentiary citations.
務必要記得,在引用不同論點和證據時,要加上註腳.
Proper footnote and bibliography citations are required.
要求用恰當的腳註和書目引用.
You entered multiple destinations for a page, line, footnote , endnote, or comment.
您為頁 、 行 、 腳註 、 尾註或批註輸入了多專案標.
Use standard footnote conventions, giving full bibliographic information for all sources you cite.
用標準的腳註方法, 給出你所引的所有資料詳細的書目資訊.
That biography is an illuminating footnote to the history of our times.
那篇傳記對我們這個時代是一個很有啟發性的說明.