annotated

annotated — verb

1. to write short explanations, comments, or notes on a text, drawing, or image in

1.動詞及物B2
釋義

to write short explanations, comments, or notes on a text, drawing, or image in order to help readers understand it better — for instance, explaining a difficult word in a poem or labelling the parts of a diagram in a textbook.

例句

Bao annotated the poem with notes about the author's life and the historical context.

annotate [text] with [explanatory notes]

The history professor asked the class to annotate each page of the old letter.

同義詞
  • gloss

    usually means explaining a single difficult word or phrase, often between lines or in the margin

  • comment on

    less structured; can mean giving an opinion rather than explaining

  • footnote

    specifically refers to adding a note at the bottom of a page, usually with a reference number

文法句型

annotate + noun phrase + with + noun phrase

passive: be annotated

用法筆記

Often used in academic or educational contexts where a text is studied closely. The person annotating is typically adding value for future readers, not just for themselves.

常見錯誤

❌I annotated the book with highlighting the important parts.
✅I annotated the book by adding notes in the margins.
💡'annotate' means adding written notes or explanations, not highlighting or underlining.
❌She annotated him about the meeting.
✅She annotated the document with comments about the budget.
💡The object of 'annotate' is always the text or image being explained, not a person.

2. to add labels, tags, or descriptions to digital data — such as marking whether a

2.動詞及物C1
釋義

to add labels, tags, or descriptions to digital data — such as marking whether a word in a text is a noun or a verb, or classifying a photo by what it shows — so that computer systems can process the information more effectively.

例句

The research team annotated over ten thousand sentences with grammatical tags.

annotate [data] with [tags / labels]

A computer program was trained to annotate product reviews by their overall tone.

同義詞
  • tag

    more general and less formal; tagging can be automated or manual and is often simpler (e.g. a single keyword)

  • label

    similar to tag but often implies a category name rather than a structured description

  • mark up

    can mean adding codes or symbols to a text or dataset, common in XML/HTML contexts

文法句型

annotate + noun phrase + with + noun phrase

用法筆記

Common in technical fields such as computational linguistics, machine learning, and corpus research. The passive form is very frequent because the process is often described from the data's perspective (e.g. 'the corpus was annotated for part-of-speech tags').

常見錯誤

❌We annotated the data with tagging each image.
✅We annotated the data by tagging each image.
💡The tool/instrument is introduced with 'with' + noun phrase, not 'with' + gerund.
❌He annotated the database at SQL.
✅He annotated the database with SQL queries.
💡The annotation method or label type follows 'with', not 'at'.

annotated — adjective