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A footnote is a small note at the bottom of a page in a book or document that gives extra information about something in the main text — like where a fact came from, or an extra explanation that would interrupt the main writing if it were placed in the middle. People also use "footnote" more generally to mean something small and compared to the bigger picture — "that event became just a footnote in history."
註腳、腳註；（比喻）不重要的小細節
組成foot (bottom) + note — a note at the bottom (foot) of the page.
同家族的字
- footshares the root "foot" meaning bottom
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
footnotenoun/ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
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A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
- consult the footnotes for more details
- Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
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An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
- a mere footnote in history
- If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes
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A qualification to the import of something.
footnoteverb/ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
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To add footnotes to a text.
- She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。