首页英语词典foilfoil英英释意

foil

英[fɔɪl] 美[fɔɪl]
  • vt. 衬托;阻止,挡开;挫败;贴箔于
  • n. 箔,金属薄片;衬托,烘托;叶形片
  • abbr. 面向文件的翻译语言(file-Oriented interpretive language)
  • n. (Foil)人名;(英)福伊尔

英英释意


1. a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal;
"the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
2. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities;
"pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
3. 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;
"the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
4. picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
5. a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button