faultlines

faultlines

美 [ˈfɔltˌlaɪn] 　英 [ˈfɔːltˌlaɪn]

• 网络断层线；断裂线

词形变化

复数：faultlines  

英汉解释

n.	1. a crack on the Earth’s surface where layers of rock have become separated from the main layer of rock and where earthquakes sometimes happen

例句

Mr Gunter said several US reactors, including in Iowa and Nebraska, were built on faultlines.

甘特表示，数座核反应堆（包括爱荷华州和内布拉斯加州的反应堆）建造在地震带。

But time, unforgivingly, moves on. The idyll shows faultlines: infidelity, disease, age, loss, divorce.

但时间无情地流逝，田园牧歌出现了断层：不贞、疾病、高龄、亏损、离婚。

That has been advanced by Raghuram Rajan, of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in a recent book, "Fault Lines" .

该假设是迄今为止最具争议的，由芝加哥大学布斯商学院的RaghuramRajan在其新书《断层》（FaultLines）中提出。

Tokyo sits above two faultlines and near another.

东京位于两条地质断层线之上，而附近还有另外一条。