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never the twain shall meet used to say that two things are so different that they can never exist together两者永远合不到一起 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））.] never the ˌtwain shall ˈmeet(saying)used to say that two things are so different that they cannot exist together二者永远合不到一起；泾渭分明；大相迳庭 |