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N-SING
奴役;束縛;羈絆;枷鎖
If you say that people are under the yoke of a bad thing or person, you mean they are forced to live in a difficult or unhappy state because of that thing or person.
例句
People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery...
人們仍然生活在奴隸制的枷鎖之下。
...a domineering comedian whose son flees to Blackpool to escape the parental yoke.
其子逃到了布萊克浦以擺脫其管制的專橫霸道的喜劇演員
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N-COUNT
軛;牛軛
A yoke is 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.
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VERB
使強行結合；把…硬拼湊在一起
If two or more people or things are yoked together, they are forced to be closely linked with each other.
例句
The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together...
導言部分試圖將各部分硬拼湊在一起。
The Auto Pact yoked Ontario into the United States economy...
《汽車協定》強行將安大略納入了美國的經濟體系中。