| 词汇 | fault-line |
| 释义 | fault line noun[ C ] uk /ˈfɒlt ˌlaɪn/ us /ˈfɑːlt ˌlaɪn/ fault linenoun[C] (CRACK)a fault (= a break in the earth's surface)（地球表面的）断层线 Kevin Schafer/Photolibrary/GettyImages Geology: earthquakes & volcanic eruptions aftershock crater geyser lahar lava magma non-volcanic phreatic pyroclastic quake seismically seismograph shock wave tectonically temblor the Richter scale tremor volcanic volcano vulcanicity fault linenoun[C] (PROBLEM)a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail: （潜在的）问题，隐忧 The fault lines of imperfect peace deals are already showing.因和平协议不完善而引发的潜在问题已经开始显现。 Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something catch dig make heavy weather of somethingidiom make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms overburden sand shoot store up trouble/problemsidiom subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall wrong-foot Examples of fault linefault line They are effects that in turn reproduce the political faultline. However, it is also clear that the rural-urban faultline will not be removed or redrawn at least within the foreseeable future. Such an understanding of equality is essential, especially for transitional societies where inequality provided the faultline for violent conflict. This is in fact the 'faultline' of the whole apparatus. Of course, thanks to both rural and urban reforms, crossing the faultline is now much easier. But it was not the only faultline in religious life. This particular example is just one instance of a fundamental faultline in the study of the evolution of life. The modern understanding of naturalization depends on this faultline, and is read back into earlier historical geographies only at the peril of distortion. Whilst the terminology remained both ill-defined and contentious, the major faultline in the debate remained the relationship between nationalism and historical scholarship. It follows almost of course that institutional development drives a faultline between current fact and prevailing opinion. A faultline developed between those who saw the object of federal government to be individuals and those that viewed the states as its end. But by the end of the eighteenth century, the long-latent faultline between text and act had become a chasm. The intra-urban faultline, as well as the rural-urban faultline, has become an integral part of the urban social and economic system in the reform era. Nevertheless, once rural people cross the rural-urban faultline, these motivated entrepreneurs and workers are pejoratively branded as "blind people" (mangmin) or, at best, "the floating population" (liudong renkou). Only a phalanx of all retailers, tradesmen and industrialists over the ideological faultline between the traditional parties (partis d'ordre) was able to exact serious political concessions. See all examples of fault line These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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