英语词汇“never the twain shall meet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

never the twain shall meet

Used to suggest that two things are too different to exist alongside each other: families were either ‘church’ or ‘chapel’ and never the twain shall meet...

It was Rudyard Kipling who said, ‘east is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet.’
The band members sat in the Third Class carriage while the brethren of the Loyal Orange Lodge adorned the First Class carriage; never the twain shall meet.
Each will look after their own, and never the twain shall meet.

From Rudyard Kipling's ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’ (Barrack-room Ballads, 1892)

See parent entry: twain

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: families were either ‘church’ or ‘chapel’ and never the twain shall meet... It was Rudyard Kipling who said, ‘east is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet.’ The band members sat in the Third Class carriage while the brethren of the Loyal Orange Lodge adorned the First Class carriage; never the twain shall meet. Each will look after their own, and never the twain shall meet. From Rudyard Kipling's ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’ (Barrack-room Ballads, 1892) See parent entry: twain
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