an additional piece of information printed at the bottom of a page 脚注 ■(figurative)a thing that is additional or less important (喻)额外(或次要)事物 this incident seemed destined to become a mere footnote in history. 这次事件似乎注定只能是历史上一次无足轻重的事件。
verb
[with obj.]add a footnote or footnotes to (a piece of writing) 加脚注