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词汇 afoul
释义 afoul
adverb
uk /əˈfaʊl/ us /əˈfaʊl/
 run/fall afoul of something/someone
to experience problems, punishment, or harm because you do not obey a rule or disagree with a powerful organization, group, or person: 与…相冲突;与…抵触
He was 15 when he first ran afoul of the law.他在15岁时第一次触犯法律。
At one point Seeger fell afoul of the US government for his anti-war actions.西格一度因他的反战行动触怒了美国政府。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obeying & breaking the law
abide
abide by something
adhere
adhere to something
bac
buck
commission
comply
contravene
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disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
infraction
infringement
shalt
venal
violation

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Arguing & disagreeing

Examples of afoul


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This is because the most elaborate and expensive rituals, such as fangyankou, can easily run afoul of state religious policy because of possible "superstitious" elements.
Instead, its presumed abilities retain their full homuncular bloom and so run afoul of the rest of the model.
Moreover, other studies that employ similar grammaticality judgment tasks might run afoul of the same problems.
Any such rejoinder to my arguments would run afoul of two principal snags.
A naive induction runs afoul, though, since the interpreter can return intermediate results that are neither numbers nor booleans.
Second, these simple metrics omit important attributes like amount and location of trimming, which would run the analysis afoul of the "intention" problem discussed above.
These theorists run afoul of the consistency problem unless they can prevent rights from conflicting.
So while her action runs afoul of a standing legal prohibition, in her case the state's punitive hands are tied.
News content produced for one set of countries by a global media firm could run afoul of censors in an authoritarian regime.
Ironically, these public-private efforts often took the form of local processing requirements which ultimately ran afoul of the commerce clause.
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Trouble follows as they run afoul of the local mob boss.
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However, the work ran afoul of the new censorship law and was not distributed, much of the edition eventually being destroyed.
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His actions during this time often caused him to run afoul of both ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
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Not surprisingly, he ran afoul of the authorities in 1936 and began writing in a more conservative idiom in order to avoid charges of formalism.
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In the process, they run afoul a pirate ship and are taken prisoners.
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