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VERB
控制（情感）;利用（自然力）
If you harness something such as an emotion or natural source of energy, you bring it under your control and use it.
例句
...the movement's ability to harness the anger of all Ukrainians...
該運動之疏解所有烏克蘭人怒氣的能力
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
土耳其計劃利用底格里斯河和幼發(fā)拉底河的河水開發(fā)大型水電項目。
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N-COUNT
（系在身上用以攜帶裝備或限制其移動的）系帶，背帶
A harness is a set of straps which fit under a person's arms and fasten round their body in order to keep a piece of equipment in place or to prevent the person moving from a place.
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N-COUNT
馬具;挽具
A harness is a set of leather straps and metal links fastened round a horse's head or body so that the horse can have a carriage, cart, or plough fastened to it.
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VERB
給（馬等）套上挽具
If a horse or other animal is harnessed, a harness is put on it, especially so that it can pull a carriage, cart, or plough.
例句
On Sunday the horses were harnessed to a heavy wagon for a daylong ride over the Border.
星期天，馬匹被套在一輛沉重的馬車上，準備踏上長達一天的穿越邊境之旅。
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PHRASE
互相配合;通力合作
People or things who are working in harness are working together in order to achieve a particular aim.
例句
At Opera North he will be in harness with Paul Daniel, the conductor appointed music director last year.
在北方歌劇公司，他將和去年指揮指定的音樂總監(jiān)保羅·丹尼爾通力合作。
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PHRASE
（常指停止工作一段時間后）正常工作的
If you say that someone is in harness, you mean that they are working, often after a period of not working.
例句
You can rest for three or four months and then the longing for work will return and you will be right back in harness.
你可以休息三四個月，然后又會開始渴望工作，并能很快回到正常的工作狀態(tài)。