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foot.noteH5fJt7nEJt, $-noJtn [C]a note printed at the bottom of a page or in a list at the end of a book or article and which gives extra information about something that has been written on that page脚注，补充说明The book is 900 pages long, and has many footnotes.这本书有900页，包括许多脚注。(fig.) As a footnote (=something extra) to what I was saying before. ..作为对我刚才所说的补充说明…(fig.) He said that homelessness was no longer a footnote (=something unimportant) to the political agenda, but had become a matter of central concern.他说无家可归现象不再是政治日程上一件不足称道的小事，而是已经成了中心议题。(fig.) The crisis seemed of great importance at the time, but it later became just a footnote (=something unimportant) to history.那次危机当时看来极为重大，但后来成了历史上微不足道的一件事情。
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