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单词 fault line
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Definition of fault line in English:

fault line

noun
  • 1A line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.

    (岩石表面或地面的)断层线

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The India plate dove under the Burma plate some 50 feet, causing a fault line 750 miles long.
    • The world's only accurate detection system today is spread along the three major underwater fault lines in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean.
    • Each year, thousands of tremors of various degrees of intensity are recorded on that fault line.
    • I grew up on the faultline - actually, about ten minutes drive from it.
    • In a matter of seconds, the Indian plates began moving, when suddenly, rocks became stressed, and a faultline was created.
    • These days, New Yorkers live like people whose houses are built on a fault line.
    1. 1.1 A divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.
      (可能引发严重后果的)分歧;裂痕
      religion is now the great fault line of American politics

      宗教现已成为美国政治中可能引发重大分裂的问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our ongoing cultural encounter with the gray is, at the very least, emblematic of fault lines in the contemporary culture.
      • The fault lines, where clear differences occur, establish the boundaries.
      • It also brought to surface the various fault lines in Sri Lankan politics.
      • Huntington is also incorrect to propose the conflictual "fault lines" are along civilisational boundaries.
      • To consolidate democracy, he said, " we need a nation which has been able to overcome its historic fault-lines ".
      • There are major fault lines running through Chinese society.
      • I don't think I have any dangerous moral faultlines with the generally accepted view of " how to be good ".
      • Any operation involving the United States mounted from Pakistan would exacerbate this faultline.
      • Nevertheless, the provisional results reveal deep divisions across ethnic fault lines.
      • His face is riven with the faultlines of age, creating the illusion of a constant scowl.
      • Investigating a magnetic anomaly near a fault line created my most humorous experience.
      • The recent wild gyrations in the stock market are clearly creating fault lines with the new economy sector.
      • The battle has exposed fault lines among automakers.
      • The gun issue is an ideological fault line between North American brethren.
      • The fact that the political fault lines remained in place is not in itself new.
      • The war in Iraq is, of course, the most dramatic fault line.
      • Here too differences loom at least as large as commonalities across the linguistic fault lines.
      • The question of whether you have signed or not has created a new social fault line in local society.
      • Democrats face the flip side - that several years without power can start to lay bare a party's insider fault lines.
      • The Aberfan disaster is situated on the fault line of this transformation.

Definition of fault line in US English:

fault line

noun
  • 1A line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.

    (岩石表面或地面的)断层线

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These days, New Yorkers live like people whose houses are built on a fault line.
    • The India plate dove under the Burma plate some 50 feet, causing a fault line 750 miles long.
    • In a matter of seconds, the Indian plates began moving, when suddenly, rocks became stressed, and a faultline was created.
    • I grew up on the faultline - actually, about ten minutes drive from it.
    • Each year, thousands of tremors of various degrees of intensity are recorded on that fault line.
    • The world's only accurate detection system today is spread along the three major underwater fault lines in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean.
    1. 1.1 A divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.
      (可能引发严重后果的)分歧;裂痕
      religion is now the great fault line of American politics

      宗教现已成为美国政治中可能引发重大分裂的问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Any operation involving the United States mounted from Pakistan would exacerbate this faultline.
      • Democrats face the flip side - that several years without power can start to lay bare a party's insider fault lines.
      • The war in Iraq is, of course, the most dramatic fault line.
      • The recent wild gyrations in the stock market are clearly creating fault lines with the new economy sector.
      • The battle has exposed fault lines among automakers.
      • The question of whether you have signed or not has created a new social fault line in local society.
      • Our ongoing cultural encounter with the gray is, at the very least, emblematic of fault lines in the contemporary culture.
      • There are major fault lines running through Chinese society.
      • It also brought to surface the various fault lines in Sri Lankan politics.
      • Investigating a magnetic anomaly near a fault line created my most humorous experience.
      • Nevertheless, the provisional results reveal deep divisions across ethnic fault lines.
      • The fact that the political fault lines remained in place is not in itself new.
      • I don't think I have any dangerous moral faultlines with the generally accepted view of " how to be good ".
      • The Aberfan disaster is situated on the fault line of this transformation.
      • Here too differences loom at least as large as commonalities across the linguistic fault lines.
      • The fault lines, where clear differences occur, establish the boundaries.
      • Huntington is also incorrect to propose the conflictual "fault lines" are along civilisational boundaries.
      • The gun issue is an ideological fault line between North American brethren.
      • To consolidate democracy, he said, " we need a nation which has been able to overcome its historic fault-lines ".
      • His face is riven with the faultlines of age, creating the illusion of a constant scowl.
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