footnote

1 Looking back as a young adult, she realizes she was a footnote to the main event.

2 It’s nothing to get passionate about—unless it’s under attack, and then it must be defended vigorously, and with footnotes.

3 Then the Thunder-Stealer-in-Chief rang out with "Four score and seven years ago . . . " and made Everett's magnum opus a historical footnote in under 180 seconds.

4 That’s a footnote to my supposed point, but kind of an important one: The new “Star Wars” is a big movie, for sure.

5 Often, even a good film for a master filmmaker late in life is merely a footnote to their younger, more urgent work.

6 The story of the former Colorado senator may sound like a quaint footnote in history, an outlier that was unique to its era, perhaps more indicative of news media overreach than of things to come.

7 If she had married Henry Percy, the future Earl of Northumberland, as she had hoped, she would have been just a footnote in history.

8 They did argue, in a footnote, that Moncrieffe may not apply retroactively—though given that the decision clarified existing law, rather than making new law, it’s unclear why that would be the case.

9 A skillful artist who left behind a limited oeuvre of refined, appealing works, Taneyev now occupies a status between historical footnote and that common gesture of polite approbation, “respected pedagogue.”

10 Our national mythology still regards slavery as a tragic footnote, not the essential precondition for America’s rise to power.

11 In Rosenhan’s study, Lando was reduced to a footnote, his data “excluded” on a technicality, allegedly because he’d “falsified aspects of his personal history” when he was admitted to the hospital.

12 It uses mathy symbols like curly brackets and oversized asterisks, which lead to snappy footnotes that begin with prompts like, “Alright, Smarty-Pants . . .” or “remember levers from fourth grade?”

13 But that scene is offset by copiously footnoted research.

14 That this heroic display bore little relation to the song that it footnoted, an in-the-pocket funk ballad called “Memphis Redux,” didn’t matter much.

15 The explanation in the footnote clarified the difficult sentence.

注脚的解释澄清这一个困难的句子.

16 Look through the footnotes, however, and the apparent randomness disappears.

17 It never quite came to that point and the story became a footnote in history.

18 Footnotes illuminated the difficult passage of the text.

脚注解释了课文中难解的段落.

19 “Life With Groucho,” published in 1954, captivated readers with its sharp but affectionate portrait of Groucho — who peppered the narrative with kibitzing footnotes — and its shrewd account of the show-business milieu in which he thrived.

20 Others may require work to figure out the literature available, but you can usually discover related works by looking at a book’s dedication or footnotes or appendices.

1 补充说明

postscript parenthetical epexegesis

2 脚注

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