footnote

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I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
恐怕他的名字現(xiàn)在會成為歷史的注腳。
A footnote is made at the bottom of the page.
注腳列在書頁下端.
The asterisk refers the reader to a footnote.
星號是讓讀者參看腳注.
I'm afraid that his name will now become a footnote in history.
恐怕他的名字現(xiàn)在會成為歷史的注腳。
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(xiàn)得過分逞強。

a note printed at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something that has been written on that page

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.
If you describe an event as a footnote, you mean that it is fairly unimportant although it will probably be remembered.