势如水火

cóng zhèng zhì xué jiǎo dù yán zhī gǎi gé yǔ gé mìng shì zhèng zhì xiàn dài huà de liǎng zhǒng bù tóng de shí xiàn fāng shì dàn bìng fēi shì rú shuǐ huǒ jié rán bù kě xiāng lián

从政治学角度言之，改革与革命是政治现代化的两种不同的实现方式，但并非势如水火，截然不可相连。

Political reform contacts tightly with revolution as two ways of realizing political modernization from political perspectives. But it's not mutually antagonistic to each other, and it's not completely unconnected.