yoked

英 [jəʊkt]

美 [joʊkt]

v.  用轭把(动物)套在一起; 给(动物)上轭; (强行)使结合，使联合
yoke的过去分词和过去式

过去式：yoked　

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 奴役;束缚;羁绊;枷锁
  If you say that people are under theyoke ofa bad thing or person, you mean they are forced to live in a difficult or unhappy state because of that thing or person.
  1. People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery...
     人们仍然生活在奴隶制的枷锁之下。
  2. ...a domineering comedian whose son flees to Blackpool to escape the parental yoke.
     其子逃到了布莱克浦以摆脱其管制的专横霸道的喜剧演员
• 轭;牛轭
  Ayokeis a long piece of wood which is tied across the necks of two animals such as oxen, in order to make them walk close together when they are pulling a plough.
• VERB 使强行结合；把…硬拼凑在一起
  If two or more people or thingsare yoked together, they are forced to be closely linked with each other.
  1. The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together...
     导言部分试图将各部分硬拼凑在一起。
  2. The Auto Pact yoked Ontario into the United States economy...
     《汽车协定》强行将安大略纳入了美国的经济体系中。
  3. Farmers and politicians are yoked by money and votes.
     农场主和政客被金钱和选票绑在了一起。

双语例句

• Can a woman have an inner life apart from the man she is yoked to?
  女人难道在她联姻的男人之外还有任何内在的生命吗？
• Yin and Yang, though opposing, can be balanced and yoked together.
  阴和阳，虽然相对，但却能都取得平衡，结合起来。
• I don't wish to be yoked to him in marriage, as if we were cattle pulling a plow.
  我并不希望象拉犁的牛一样由于婚姻和他牵扯在一起。
• Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
  两头被套上犁的公牛在地里吃力地来回耕地。
• He was yoked to an unwilling partner.
  他不得不与一位不情愿的伙伴合作。
• The colony now possessed a plow, to which the onagers were yoked like regular Yorkshire or Kentucky oxen.
  小队现在有一张犁，他们常常用两头野驴拉犁，象约克州和肯特基的真正的耕牛一样。
• They were yoked in marriage.
  他们因婚姻而结合[结婚了]。
• Partners who were yoked together for life.
  为了生命那些合伙人紧密地结合。
• But America should not want the world to be yoked so tightly to its willingness to generate demand.
  但美国不应指望世界如此紧密地配合自己刺激需求的意愿。
• The efforts of all intelligent men tend to the same goal, and all those firm in purpose are yoked to the same principle: let us be good, let us be young, let us be true!
  聪明人全都致力于同一个目的，一切伟大的意志都服从于同一个原则：我们要善良，要朝气蓬勃，要真实！