The two characters form a single word, they cannot be separated.

这两个字构成一个词，不能拆开。

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Language is the carrier of culture, they cannot be separated from each other.

语言是文化的载体，二者密不可分。

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Faith and work are like the light and heat of a candle; they cannot be separated.

信心与工作正如蜡烛的光和热，不可分离。

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But,they note that mitigation and adaptation are linked and cannot be separated.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

But they argue that organising cannot be separated from politics.

ECONOMIST: The labour movement

"The comments about failed drug tests made by the separated players in affidavits cannot be verified simply because they were made in the context of a drug buy, " she said.

WSJ: Drug Bust Hits TCU Football Program

Traditional chemical synthesis cannot distinguish between left- and right-handed versions, so they have to be separated afterwards, which is tedious.

ECONOMIST: Inhuman genomes