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。

Partners who were yoked together for life.
为了生命那些合伙人紧密地结合。
Suddenly two heads appeared outside the barred window overlooking the lane and peeped into the room. The two oxen were yoked together.
突然有两个人头爬在这厢房的朝南窗洞的铁栅栏外边，朝里面窥视。那两头牛给套在一起。
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。
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。
They were yoked in marriage.
他们因婚姻而结合[结婚了]。
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。
Jim and bill have been yoked together in the business for many years.
吉姆和比尔多年以来一直是生意上的搭档。
There might be a market for inferential power like that, especially if it could be yoked to some of the autonomous semi-intelligent agents that are already buzzing around on the Internet.
如果像那样的话，推论力也可能有市场，尤其是如果它能跟一些在互联网上已经流传开的、自发的半智能力量结合在一起时更可能有市场。
The farmer yoked his plow.
农夫给犁套上了牲口。