The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.

这部小说的各部分之间无法连贯起来。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It can be difficult to get a group of people to cohere.

要使一群人做到彼此一条心有时候很困难。

《牛津词典》

To cohere with or as if with a bond.

用绳子或象用绳子一样连结起来。

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The Tories failure to cohere round a line of opposition adds hugely to Mr Blair's room for manoeuvre.

ECONOMIST: The Tories

As a result, a generally atomised, sometimes fractious place seemed to cohere.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot: Glory and hope | The

But all three of those parties still go into the election committed to a renegotiation of the austerity terms, so for such a last-ditch centrist government to cohere, Germany has to want Greece to stay in the Euro.

BBC: Will Europe let the Greek political centre fall?