Foil

(noun.) a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button.

(noun.) a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; 'the photographic film was wrapped in foil'.

(noun.) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector.

(noun.) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; 'pretty girls like plain friends as foils'.

(verb.) cover or back with foil; 'foil mirrors'.

(verb.) enhance by contrast; 'In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background'.

录入:厄普顿

• One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb,' etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Edison's cylinder, on which the sounds were recorded and from which they were reproduced, was covered by tin foil. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Each slab is here automatically wrapped in wax and silver-foil papers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Nay, he made this foil of his so very widely known, that third parties took it up, and handled it on some occasions with considerable briskness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It was written on tissue paper, and wrapped up in tin-foil such as chewing tobacco is folded in. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Our friend resolved however not to be foiled in his wish. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Dust, ashes, smoke, fire, have they all come to, and I, after seventy-five years of life, die foiled and beaten by Fate. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Deity unquestioned, thine essence foils decay! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He provided foils for us, and Steerforth gave me lessons in fencing--gloves, and I began, of the same master, to improve in boxing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Crispin darted a look of gratitude at him, and Maurice, delighted at thus foiling his aunt's schemes, went off to hear that lady's conversation. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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