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Definition of fault line in English: fault linenoun 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 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 linenoun 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 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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