faultlines

faultlines

美 [?f?lt?la?n] 　英 [?f??lt?la?n]

• 網絡斷層線；斷裂線

詞形變化

復數：faultlines  

英漢解釋

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，數座核反應堆（包括愛荷華州和內布拉斯加州的反應堆）建造在地震帶。

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

但時間無情地流逝，田園牧歌出現了斷層：不貞、疾病、高齡、虧損、離婚。

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

該假設是迄今為止最具爭議的，由芝加哥大學布斯商學院的RaghuramRajan在其新書《斷層》（FaultLines）中提出。

Tokyo sits above two faultlines and near another.

東京位于兩條地質斷層線之上，而附近還有另外一條。