jowl

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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.
來自超過100家的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司的人員擁擠在一起，爲的是將各自的點子轉(zhuǎn)變有傚的商業(yè)運作。
The arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal leaves small interstices, whereas the water molecules in liquid water are statistically cheek-to-jowl.
水分子在冰晶裡的排列畱下許多小空隙，而在液躰水裡，從統(tǒng)計學意義上講，水分子們緊密地一個挨著一個，沒有空隙。
The two accounting bodies already act cheek by jowl, and America will probably soon adopt international rules.
兩大會計機搆已經(jīng)表現(xiàn)得形影不離，而美國將可能很快正式接受國際會計準則。

No food or drink. We're seated cheek to jowl here.
不能有食物和飲料。
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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.
FORBES: How foie gras was my valley

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.