coexist

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++co·ex·ist /ˌkəʊɪɡˈzɪst $ ˌkoʊ-/ verb [intransitive] TIME/AT THE SAME TIMEif two different things coexist, they exist at the same time or in the same place 共存，共处coexist with wealth coexisting with poverty 富裕和贫困并存→ See Verb table

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coexist• The professors laugh at the irony but ignore the message-that academic skills and fighting skills may not often coexist.• River and sea now coexist by the rules of a peculiar estuarine current.• Despite the Hinduism of most Tamils and the Buddhism of most Sinhalese, they coexisted for those two millennia without much hostility.• Each approach has its advantages, and these and other options may coexist in the network of tomorrow.• Can the two countries ever coexist peacefully?• And yet this gangsta poise coexists with a weirdly playful quality.• It is possible for such sentiments of approval of this past to coexist with abhorrence for most current acts of violence.• The work of Tennyson coexisted with the devastation of an urban underclass described by Dickens.• The work of Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley coexisted with the misery described by Blake.coexist with• The article describes how Islam coexists with more traditional American religions.