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Naples does not sit squarely on a fault line but is close enough to be at risk for major damage if a strong quake hits nearby.
那普乐思并没有完全位于断层线上但也非常的靠近，因此有着巨大伤害的风险如果附近出现强大的地震。
This is an enduring fault line in the nature of medicine itself—is it a future-oriented science or is it a present-rooted, caring practice?
这是医学本身一直存在的一个断层线——医学是面向未来的科学呢还是着重现在的护理业务？
For the past 36 years, Roe versus Wade has been a fault line across America, pitting its coasts against its heartland, state against state, woman against woman.
过去的36年里，罗伊诉韦德案制造了一条贯穿美国的断层线，引发了沿海与内陆、州与州、妇女与妇女之间的对立。

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.
Jakarta itself does not sit on a geological fault line.

The mightiest of corporations and the mightiest of earthquakes-- there is a fault line.
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The center line looked as if it was running over an active fault line.
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A fault line is a long crack in the surface of the earth. Earthquakes usually occur along fault lines.
A fault line in a system or process is an area of it that seems weak and likely to cause problems or failure.