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词汇 cheek-by-jowl
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cheek by jowl


idiom
very close together: 紧靠在一起,紧挨着
The poor lived cheek by jowl in industrial mining towns in Victorian England.在维多利亚时代的英格兰,穷人们密密匝匝地挤住在工业矿镇上。
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Closeness in distance and time
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cheek by jowl
This simple entry, cheekbyjowl with inventories of books and clothing, suggests volumes.
They were characterised, and still are to some extent, by big mills - industry on five or six floors - that sit cheekbyjowl with tight-grained housing.
If such armies are cheekbyjowl across a frontier, the danger always exists that someone will violate that frontier.
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In the lounges, patients sit cheekbyjowl.
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Why, as a consequence of that, do we have an aerodrome and a new town being built cheekbyjowl?
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An enclave of very rich people are cheekbyjowl with the people who live in the most deprived and squalid circumstances.
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There they are, cheekbyjowl, one across the road from the other.
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Problems in rural areas are often difficult to identify because people suffering social deprivation often live in small pockets, cheekbyjowl with wealthy people.
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The farmers live cheekbyjowl with the pits that are shutting down.
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It may be inevitable that different uses of land should exist cheekbyjowl.
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Yet we expect children living cheekbyjowl to arrive at the same answers even when they are being taught by different methods.
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In a small agricultural town one sees five or more banks, cheekbyjowl, all doing the same type of business.
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People from all backgrounds used to live cheekbyjowl in the successful model for living called village life.
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Frequently, we get good and bad authorities cheekbyjowl.
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It is a classical example of where industry and housing have grown cheekbyjowl.
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