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a·foul
faUl
Adjective
1. especially of a ship's lines etc;
"with its sails afoul"
"a foul anchor"
afoul of碰撞,同某物撞在一起;和某人发生冲突
1809年,最初用于航海,“处于碰撞或缠结状态”,来自 a-(1)+ foul(形容词)。从1833年开始,具有“处于激烈或敌对冲突中”的一般意义,主要用于 run afoul of 等短语中。
a- >entry 1 + foul >entry 1
The first known use of afoul was in 1807
1 The company was founded in 2005 and soon ran afoul of Belarus’s dictatorship.
2 When Surfer Girl runs afoul of her suppliers, events take a homicidal turn as a coastal hurricane brews.
3 He argued with his father and has run afoul of him ever since.
他和他的父亲争辩,从此便得罪了父亲。
4 The kites were afoul in the wind.
风筝在风中纠缠一起。
5 Each has fallen afoul of a local crime boss, which is bad for them but lucky for us, since the big shots are played by Ray Liotta and Bill Duke.
6 In other words, if a hotel room isn’t as advertised online or if a tour doesn’t live up to its billing, it may run afoul of federal law.
7 It explores Kinshasa’s criminal underworld and focuses on a young wheeler-dealer who runs afoul of Angolan gangsters.
8 The price for opium has fallen, he said, and growing poppies risked running afoul of heavy-handed eradication efforts by Myanmar authorities.
9 In Philadelphia, she heard stories about three different runaways who had run afoul of the law, for these stories were being told everywhere —North and South.
10 “I didn’t know the name, but I knew about a Northern kid who went South, ran afoul of the etiquette of the white South and was murdered.”
11 Twenty years later, she remains best friends with the girl from second grade who volunteered to eat her portion so that Tsaturyan wouldn’t run afoul of her teachers for wasting food.
12 When the outspoken Marty falls afoul of the bosses, he loses his job and becomes nearly penniless; his decision to reclaim his life by standing for union president drives the play.
13 Her tales featured a poor little girl identical to Lulu who picked beebleberries and sold them, but frequently ran afoul of a wicked witch called Hazel.
14 They traveled to Riflor, where they ran afoul of bounty hunters.
他俩来到里夫勒星球,遭遇了赏金猎人。
15 Shehi had run afoul of Alabama’s “chemical endangerment of a child” statute, the country’s toughest criminal law on prenatal drug use.
16 They knew that Riseborough had just pulled off something crazy, and it didn’t take long before rival awards strategists began working the phones, suggesting that her grass-roots campaign may have run afoul of Oscar rules.
17 Reluctantly ensnared in that web of spies, turncoats and double agents is the eccentric astrologer and alchemist John Dee, Elizabeth’s beloved former tutor, temporarily banished from court after running afoul of some of her advisers.
18 Instead of trying to read minds and hitting a brick wall, you may have to take charge and risk running afoul of the suits.
与尝试揣摩心思并碰壁不同,您可能必须负起责来并承担与主管发生冲突的风险。
19 Almost inevitably, these merchants run afoul of our core sense of privacy.
20 The film is the latest to run afoul of Thailand's censors, which cover a wide range of political and social offenses.
2 碰撞
foul hit impact bump dash butt collision percussion shunt hurtle crash collide knock smash knap
4 冲突
conflicting discordant inharmonious fight conflict encounter passage sword collision interference contention strife dissension meet jar collide repugnant inharmonic shock clash warfare friction variance jarring repugnance rencontre stour inharmony interfere discord militate rencounter falling out warring disaccord war violence rubber dash hassle scrape confrontation impingement discordance bang-up appulse crush bash barge scrap chasm fall aboard
5 纠缠
cobweb mesh entanglement snarl toils mat foul tangle involve haunt badger implicate enwrap entwist kink knotted ravelment tracasserie skein involution knot dangle intwine intwist engage bone pursue entangle pester entwine ravel beleaguer fankle tangly convolution imbroglio intertwine MAT befoul embrangle
6 纠缠的