| 释义 |
hang together1Make sense; be consistent: it helps the speech to hang together...- His interpretation and speculation hang together, make sense, and are consistent with the sources.
- That book might have been more fluffy than this one but at least it hung together and made some sense.
- They want information that hangs together, that makes sense, that has some degree of order to it.
2(Of people) remain associated; help or support each other: the autonomous regions have an incentive to hang together...- Travel and hospitality was a way of life among the Elizabethan Catholic nobility who hung together for mutual support.
- It is too much to expect individuals to thwart the intentions of a closely knit, overwhelmingly dominating force which knows it must either hang together or be hanged together.
- There are signs of the premiers now working together and hanging together, notwithstanding the traditional ‘divide and rule’ tactics of the Feds.
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