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单词 fault line
释义
fault line
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɒlt ˌlaɪn/us
/ˈfɑːlt ˌlaɪn/

fault linenoun[C](CRACK)

afault(= abreakin the earth'ssurface)
（地球表面的）断层线
picture of fault line
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  • pyroclastic
  • quake
  • seismic
  • seismically
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fault linenoun[C](PROBLEM)

aproblemthat may not beobviousand couldcausesomething tofail:
（潜在的）问题，隐忧
Thefaultlinesofimperfectpeacedealsare alreadyshowing.因和平协议不完善而引发的潜在问题已经开始显现。
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others
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  • catchsomeoneout
  • dig
  • make heavy weather ofsomethingidiom
  • overburden
  • pitchforksomeoneintosomething
  • plunge
  • plunge(someone/something)intosomething
  • shoot
  • subjectsomeone/somethingtosomething
  • suicidal
  • swamp
  • tall
  • toughness
  • trouble
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(Definition offault linefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffault line

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They are effects that in turn reproduce the politicalfaultline.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, it is also clear that the rural-urbanfaultlinewill not be removed or redrawn at least within the foreseeable future.
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Such an understanding of equality is essential, especially for transitional societies where inequality provided thefaultlinefor violent conflict.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This is in fact the 'faultline' of the whole apparatus.
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Of course, thanks to both rural and urban reforms, crossing thefaultlineis now much easier.
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But it was not the onlyfaultlinein religious life.
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This particular example is just one instance of a fundamentalfaultlinein the study of the evolution of life.
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The modern understanding of naturalization depends on thisfaultline, and is read back into earlier historical geographies only at the peril of distortion.
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Whilst the terminology remained both ill-defined and contentious, the majorfaultlinein the debate remained the relationship between nationalism and historical scholarship.
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It follows almost of course that institutional development drives afaultlinebetween current fact and prevailing opinion.
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Afaultlinedeveloped between those who saw the object of federal government to be individuals and those that viewed the states as its end.
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But by the end of the eighteenth century, the long-latentfaultlinebetween text and act had become a chasm.
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The intra-urbanfaultline, as well as the rural-urbanfaultline, has become an integral part of the urban social and economic system in the reform era.
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Nevertheless, once rural people cross the rural-urbanfaultline, these motivated entrepreneurs and workers are pejoratively branded as "blind people" (mangmin) or, at best, "the floating population" (liudong renkou).
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Only a phalanx of all retailers, tradesmen and industrialists over the ideologicalfaultlinebetween the traditional parties (partis d'ordre) was able to exact serious political concessions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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