never the twain shall meet
said when two things orpeoplearecompletelydifferent,unsuitablefor each other, or areunabletoagree
毫无共同点Balance and imbalance
- accord withsomething
- align
- asymmetric
- balance(something)out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- harmonious
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- inharmonious
- jar
- on an even keelidiom
- one man's loss is another man's gainidiom
- realign
- realignment
- rebalance
- unharmonious
- well balanced
- well rounded
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never the twain shall meet
Thus, it would be a mistake to think that there are external, environmental, selection pressures, and internal, genetic, responses to those selection pressures, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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We have boys' orphanages and girls' orphanages, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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I am sure that he has two separate sets of advisers, one for industry and the other for education—andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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That seems to be that there must be nationalised industries or there must be private industry, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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Too often, companies regard school sports as forming a part of the public sector, and think thatneverthetwainshallmeet.
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A long lease is a long lease, a rental agreement is a rental agreement, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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It is said that the farming community is on one side and the ramblers are on the other, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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Some of us were environmental specialists, others were development specialists, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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It is a case ofneverthetwainshallmeet.
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I do not subscribe to the view, which is normally expressed during election campaigns, that there is town and country andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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Andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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But somehowneverthetwainshallmeet.
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In the past it has been almost "neverthetwainshallmeet", and therefore their case for a long time has very much gone by default.
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A psychology is developing that has moved away from the idea that people are either in work or out of work and on benefit, andneverthetwainshallmeet.
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Now what intrigued was:neverthetwainshallmeet?
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- look-on-upon
- look-on-upon-as
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- look-on-upon-sb-sth-as-sth
- look on/upon someone/something
- look on/upon someone/something as something
- look out
- lookout
- look-out
- look-out-for
- look out for number one
- look-out-for-number-one
- look out for sb/sth
- look-out-for-sb-sth
- look out for someone/something
- lookout point
- lookout post
- look-over
- look over something
- look over sth
- look-over-sth
- look-right-through
- look right through someone
- look-round
- look round (somewhere/something)