tinfoil
锡纸,锡箔纸,锡箔,洋葱
Definitions
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- : tin, or an alloy of tin and lead, in the form of a thin sheet, much used as a wrapping for drugs, foods, tobacco, etc.
Examples
I eat one half on the drive to the mountain, then wrap the other half in tinfoil and stash it in my jacket for lunch.
Some keep warm by wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes, like marathon runners with their tinfoil sheets.
His boat is a piece of tinfoil that covers the bottom part of the brisket and comes up over the sides by a couple inches.
So don your tinfoil hat and learn all about TrapWire, Stratfor, and what you should really be worrying about.
He concluded: “It's hard to talk about real issues when three quarters of the audience wears tinfoil hats.”
But before tinfoil hats went viral, there was Sen. James Mountain Inhofe.
In the early Edison phonograph the sound vibrations were registered on a tinfoil-covered cylinder.
In Salva's telegraph, the signals were to be made by illuminating letters of tinfoil with the spark.
And the old battered doll, dear to her heart, wore oftenest a medal of shining tinfoil.
A vibrating diaphragm to collect the sounds, and a stylus to impress them on a sheet of tinfoil, were its essential parts.
It really looked exactly as if the tinfoil moidores were a handful that was left over.