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单词 never the twain shall meet
释义

never the twain shall meet

used to suggest that two things are too different to exist alongside each other
两者永远合不到一块:

families were either 'church' or 'chapel' and never the twain shall meet.

家庭要么是“教堂”, 要么是“小礼拜堂”, 只能为其一, 不能兼而有之。

[ORIGIN: from Rudyard Kipling's 'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'. (Barrack-room Ballads (1892)).]

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