单词 | fault line |
释义 | fault line (once / 26266 pages) n WORD FAMILY fault line: fault lines USAGE EXAMPLES“In another sense, creep is our friend, because it helps relieve the strain on fault lines.” The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) FOR all the partisan fault lines in Olympia, there is bipartisan agreement that Washington’s mental-health system needs help. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) Diplomats say the country’s progress is real but that peace remains precarious, while Ivorians remain deeply divided along political and ethnic fault lines. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) n (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface Hyper line a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent |
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