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People from more than 100 start-up companies squeeze inside, working cheek by jowl to turn their ideas into successful businesses.
来自超过100家的创业公司的人员拥挤在一起，为的是将各自的点子转变有效的商业运作。
The arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal leaves small interstices, whereas the water molecules in liquid water are statistically cheek-to-jowl.
水分子在冰晶里的排列留下许多小空隙，而在液体水里，从统计学意义上讲，水分子们紧密地一个挨着一个，没有空隙。
The two accounting bodies already act cheek by jowl, and America will probably soon adopt international rules.
两大会计机构已经表现得形影不离，而美国将可能很快正式接受国际会计准则。

No food or drink. We're seated cheek to jowl here.
不能有食物和饮料。
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In Silicon Valley, scientists and venture capitalists live cheek by jowl.
ECONOMIST: The government and entrepreneurs
Later, my 13-year-old daughter Caitlin and I took a stroll over a bridge and looked down and saw a dozen antique cars parked cheek-by-jowl by a hotel on a stream.
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You can refer to someone's lower cheeks as their jowls, especially when they hang down toward their jaw.
the jaw, esp the lower one
If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.