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单词 afoul
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afoul
adverb
uk
/əˈfaʊl/us
/əˈfaʊl/
run/fall afoul ofsomething/someone
toexperienceproblems,punishment, orharmbecause you do notobeyaruleordisagreewith apowerfulorganization,group, orperson:
与…相冲突；与…抵触
He was 15 when he firstranafoul ofthelaw.他在15岁时第一次触犯法律。
At onepointSeegerfellafoul of the USgovernmentfor hisanti-waractions.西格一度因他的反战行动触怒了美国政府。
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(Definition ofafoulfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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This is because the most elaborate and expensive rituals, such as fangyankou, can easily runafoulof state religious policy because of possible "superstitious" elements.
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Instead, its presumed abilities retain their full homuncular bloom and so runafoulof the rest of the model.
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Moreover, other studies that employ similar grammaticality judgment tasks might runafoulof the same problems.
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Any such rejoinder to my arguments would runafoulof two principal snags.
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A naive induction runsafoul, though, since the interpreter can return intermediate results that are neither numbers nor booleans.
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Second, these simple metrics omit important attributes like amount and location of trimming, which would run the analysisafoulof the "intention" problem discussed above.
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These theorists runafoulof the consistency problem unless they can prevent rights from conflicting.
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So while her action runsafoulof a standing legal prohibition, in her case the state's punitive hands are tied.
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News content produced for one set of countries by a global media firm could runafoulof censors in an authoritarian regime.
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Ironically, these public-private efforts often took the form of local processing requirements which ultimately ranafoulof the commerce clause.
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Trouble follows as they runafoulof the local mob boss.
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However, the work ranafoulof the new censorship law and was not distributed, much of the edition eventually being destroyed.
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His actions during this time often caused him to runafoulof both ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
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Not surprisingly, he ranafoulof the authorities in 1936 and began writing in a more conservative idiom in order to avoid charges of formalism.
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In the process, they runafoula pirate ship and are taken prisoners.
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