yoke: [OE] The etymological ideal underlying yoke is of ‘joining’ – here, of joining two animals together. The word came ultimately from Indo-European *jugom, which also produced Latin jugum ‘yoke’ (source of English conjugal, jugular [16], and subjugate [15]), Welsh iau ‘yoke’, Czech jho ‘yoke’, Sanskrit yugám ‘yoke’, etc.
The prehistoric Germanic descendant of this was *jukam (borrowed into Finnish as juko), which evolved into German joch, Dutch juk, Swedish ok, Danish aag, and English yoke. The Indo-European form itself was derived from the base *jug-, *jeug-, *joug- ‘join’, which also produced Latin jungere ‘join’ (source of English join, junction, etc) and Sanskrit yoga ‘union’ (acquired by English via Hindi as yoga [19], which literally denotes ‘union with the universal spirit’). => conjugate, join, jugular, junction, subjugate, yoga
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 (cognates: 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" (see jugular). 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.
实用例句
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。
来自柯林斯例句
2. the yoke of imperialism
帝国主义的枷锁
来自《权威词典》
3. Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.
每个家民都知道怎样把牛拴在一起.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. They refused to bend beneath the oppressor's yoke.
他们拒绝屈服于压迫者的奴役.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. Some designs incorporate a two - piece bonnet and yoke.
