CYRANO: 'To be struck down, Pierced by sword i' the heart, from a hero's hand!' That I had dreamed. O mockery of Fate! --Killed, I! of all men--in an ambuscade! Struck from behind, and by a lackey's hand! 'Tis very well. I am foiled, foiled in all, Even in my death.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
Munson; quite a fluke, I assure you. Pray forgive me. A mere lucky accident. My old fencing master, Martini, taught me that trick. I thought I had quite forgotten it. Just think! it is forty years since I have had a foil in my hands," and, laughing like a boy he crossed the room, picked up the foil, and, bowing low, handed it to the crestfallen man with the air of a gallant. Half the club, costumed as they were--it was now after midnight, and there were but few people in the streets--escorted the two old men back to their hotel.英文原著 · 《The Fortunes of Oliver Horn》
Satan saw them, and advertised his find by breaking away from Sheldon's hands and charging. "No got pants," Noah announced with a grin that broadened as Adamu Adam took to flight. He climbed up the platform that supported the galvanized iron tanks which held the water collected from the roof. Foiled here, Satan turned and charged back on Matauare. "Run, Matauare! Run!" Joan called. But he held his ground and waited the dog. "He is the Fearless One--that is what his name means," Joan explained to Sheldon.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
He had been foiled in his attempt to escape. He had played the game and lost. And what greater joke could there be than that the bushmen should have eaten him? It was the funniest incident that had come under their notice in many a day. And to them there was certainly nothing unusual nor bizarre in the event. Gogoomy had completed the life-cycle of the bushman. He had taken heads, and now his own head had been taken. He had eaten men, and now he had been eaten by men.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
On, gay adventurers, bravely ride the billowy furze,
Golden foil and dewy pearls are swaying to a tune:
Quaff the brew of red raspberry through the vine veils gossamery. Till we turn when night comes down alleys of the moon.英文原著 · 《Ballads of Peace in War》
See? That dress doesn't look bad now as a foil to set off the colours of the embroidery.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
...so I took the liberty of fashioning a star out of foil.美剧 · 《Friends》
The perpetrators were targeting the government and their ultimate purpose, though foiled, was to disrupt all mid-Atlantic transportation networks.美剧 · 《House of Cards》