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. 挫败
adjective [原级] 有叶形装饰的
Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a bomb into Belfast airport. 警方挫败了一个将炸弹偷带进贝尔法斯特机场的企图。
verb [vt. 及物动词] 阻止（foil 的过去式和过去分词）
They were foiled in their attempt to smuggle the paintings. 他们走私绘画作品的企图未能得逞。
