yoking

基本解釋

The farmer was yoking his oxen to a plough.
每個(gè)農(nóng)民都知道怎樣把牛拴在一起。
Instead of yoking customers to monthly payments, it allows them to pay for half of the computer by buying minutes of internet access as and when they can afford them.
不過(guò)聯(lián)想并不是通過(guò)分月付款形式，而是允許消費(fèi)者以購(gòu)買一定的上網(wǎng)時(shí)間去支付一半的電腦價(jià)款。
Yoking together Germany's two Volksparteien in one government tends to stifle the coherent, mainstream opposition that is essential to the cut-and-thrust of policymaking in any democracy.
使德國(guó)的兩個(gè)人民黨在一個(gè)政府中強(qiáng)制結(jié)合，將會(huì)遏制在任何一種民主形式下，對(duì)政策制定這場(chǎng)肉搏都至關(guān)重要的主流反對(duì)聲音的連貫性。

There are also worries about the practicalities of yoking the different regulators together.
ECONOMIST: Financial regulation
Instead of yoking customers to monthly payments, it allows them to pay for half of the computer by buying minutes of internet access as and when they can afford them.
ECONOMIST: Old-school retailing in a high-tech business
But GLAAD is doing a huge publicity favor for NBC by yoking LGBT treatment with The New Normal, which might or might not have the chops to exist on its own.
FORBES: GLAAD Doing NBC's 'The New Normal' A Favor

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.
A yoke is a long piece of wood tied across the necks of two animals such as oxen, in order to make them walk close together when they are pulling a plow.
If two or more people or things are yoked together, they are forced to be closely linked with each other.