yoke
yoke 英 [jəʊk] 美 [joʊk]
n. 轭;束缚;枷锁;羁绊 v. 套一起,给…上轭
进行时:yoking 过去式:yoked 过去分词:yoked 第三人称单数:yokes 名词复数:yokes
- Ever seen a picture of a farm girl carrying two buckets of water hanging from ropes attached to a stick she's balancing across her shoulders? That stick on her shoulders is a yoke.
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- n. 轭;束缚;枷锁;羁绊
- v. 套一起,给…上轭
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1. the yoke of imperialism
帝国主义的枷锁
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2. A pair of oxen, yoked together, was used.
把两头牛用轭套在一起使唤。
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3. an ox yoked to a plough
用轭套在犁上的牛
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4. The Hong Kong dollar was yoked to the American dollar for many years.
港元多年来与美元挂钩。
- yoke (n.) Old English geoc "contrivance for fastening a pair of draft animals," earlier geoht "pair of draft animals" (especially oxen), from Proto-Germanic *yukam (source also of Old Saxon juk, Old Norse ok, Danish aag, Middle Dutch joc, Dutch juk, Old High German joh, German joch, Gothic juk "yoke"), from PIE root *yeug- "to join." Figurative sense of "heavy burden, oppression, servitude" was in Old English.
- yoke (v.) Old English geocian "to yoke, join together," from yoke (n.). Related: Yoked; yoking.
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