及物动词

名词

1. (用来包裹食物的)箔(纸)
Foil consists of sheets of metal as thin as paper. It is used to wrap food in.

2. 阻止;挫败
If you foil someone's plan or attempt to do something, for example to commit a crime, you succeed in stopping them from doing what they want.

3. 陪衬物;烘托者
If you refer to one thing or person as a foil for another, you approve of the fact that they contrast with each other and go well together, often in a way that makes the second thing or person seem better or less harmful.

4. 花剑
A foil is a thin light sword used in fencing, which has a button on its tip to prevent injury.

1. a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

2. a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal

e.g. the photographic film was wrapped in foil

3. picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base
viewed with a projector

Synonym: transparency

4. a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through

e.g. the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils

Synonym: hydrofoil

5. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

e.g. pretty girls like plain friends as foils

Synonym: enhancer