footnote

脚注

説明や出典を示すために、ページの下部に置く短い注記。

やさしい英語で： A short note at the bottom of a page that explains something or gives its source.

• Read the footnote below.
• The author explained the date in a footnote.
• These footnotes list the sources used in the chapter.

類義語： note

よく使う表現： numbered footnote, footnote reference, read a footnote

些細な出来事、付随的な事柄

大きな出来事や物語の中で、重要性の低い小さな出来事や細部。

やさしい英語で： A small event or detail that is less important than the larger story it belongs to.

• The scandal became a historical footnote.
• Her early failure was just a footnote to her later success.
• Will this election become a footnote in history?

使い方： a footnote to something (The dispute became a footnote to the larger political crisis.); a footnote in something (His brief career is now a footnote in sporting history.)

類義語： minor detail

よく使う表現： historical footnote, mere footnote, footnote to history