foiling

基本解釋

Your father-in-law is telling you that story about foiling the pickpocket in Moscow -- for the fifth time.
你的岳父正給你講述他在莫斯科挫敗扒手的故事---已經(jīng)能是第五次了。
Meanwhile, hardly a week has gone by without the government trumpeting some new arrest or the foiling of another bomb plot.
同時，政府每周都在不停大肆宣揚種種反恐成就，譬如成功實施了新抓捕或又一次挫敗了爆炸陰謀。
Even as French lawmakers prepared to vote on Mr. Sarkozy’s proposal, the Pirate Bay was offering a new service aimed at foiling both that plan and other efforts to track down file sharers.
甚至就在法國立法機關(guān)準備投票表決薩科齊總統(tǒng)的法案的同時，海盜灣正打算推出一項新服務(wù)，旨在阻撓該項法案以及其他查獲文件共享者的努力。

Iran might find an Aegean island a handy way of foiling NATO's planned missile-defence shield.
ECONOMIST: Just imagine that countries still traded land for money
On another station, the man finds himself foiling a gang of jewel thieves.
NEWYORKER: The TV
Since speed is of the essence in foiling kidnaps, this made police more effective and kidnapping riskier for its perpetrators.
ECONOMIST: How mobile phones may help to deter kidnaps

Foil consists of sheets of metal as thin as paper. It is used to wrap food in.
any scent that obscures the trail left by a hunted animal
a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button and usually having a bell-shaped guard
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.