释义 |
twain /tweɪn/ ●never the ˌtwain shall ˈmeet (saying) used to say that two things are so different that they cannot exist together (二者)截然不同,永远不可能合到一起,天悬地隔◆People in the area where I grew up were either landowners or farmers, and never the twain shall meet. 在我长大的那个地方,人们要不就是地主要不就是农民,两种身份决不会集于一身。 NOTE Twain is an old word meaning ‘two’. * twain 是一个古词,意为“两个、两者”。 |