the foldPMEMBERthe group of people that you belong to and share the same beliefs and ideas as 同一群体的人,志同道合的人return to/come back into the fold The Church will welcome him back into the fold. 教会将欢迎他重返会众之中。
stray from/leave the fold a former advocate of free market economics who had strayed from the fold 曾经倡导自由市场经济、后来已经脱离这一学派的人
stray from/leave the fold• Romley strayed from the fold only recently, daring to oppose Symington on juvenile-justice reform.
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