单词 | to cast off the yoke |
释义 | > as lemmasto cast (also shake, throw) off the yoke 11. A burden of servitude or oppression; something considered to be restrictive or oppressive; subjugation, bondage. Also: something which imposes or promotes discipline or control. Frequently in phrases, as to cast (also shake, throw) off the yoke, to submit to the yoke, under the yoke, etc.Cf. Norman yoke n. at Norman n.1 and adj. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [noun] > to oppressive rule yokeeOE nitheringeOE underputtingc1440 servitude?1473 compression1816 downtroddenness1868 society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > instrument or symbol of yokeeOE rod of iron1526 iron fist1600 heel1601 millstonea1660 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxix. 201 Ælc ðara ðe sie under ðæm gioke hlafordscipes, he sceal his hlaford æghwelcre are & weorðscipes wierðne onmunan. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 29 Nimaþ min geoc ofer eow & leorniaþ æt me. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xix. 282 Æala ofermodan, hwi ge wilnigen þæt ge underlutan mid eowrum swiran þæt deaðlice geoc? c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4045 Þatt tanne shollde itt lesedd ben. Fra dæþess ȝocc. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 71 Se ðe..Cristes ȝoc wile beren, and forlat al ðe woreld. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9286 (MED) Wanne ich am encheson of such peril ywis, Verst icholle þer inne do mi sulue..& verst asayli þen false king & bringe him to ȝoke. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 (MED) Do to þine mouþe a dore and a loc, and to þine wordes a waye and a yok. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 357 He brouȝte alle þe kynges þat were nyh hym under his ȝok. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 228 What kynne seruauntis ben vnder ȝook of seruage deme þei here lordis worþi alle manere honour or worschipe. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 420 What euer seruauntis ben vndir ȝok, deeme thei her lordis worthi al honour. c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 90 (MED) Þe ȝok of all þis birden was leid in his nek. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) iv. 24 Tyl al them that hes resauit the ȝoilk ande the confessione of crist. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 69 He circumscribed with his sword, And brought to yoake the enemies of Rome. View more context for this quotation a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 3 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Having quite shooken off their yoake, & broken the bonds of their obedience. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 719 It [sc. a castle] became a most grievous yoke unto the neighbour inhabitants. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xi. xxviii. 186 O shamelesse boldnesse! which can..make the Bond of Sweetnes a pretence To break all other yoakes. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋1 Termagant Wives who make Wedlock a Yoke. 1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 35 In tying us down to the disagreeable yoke of our reason. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. i. iv. 50 The weary yoke of business. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 400 The Restoration emancipated thousands of minds from a yoke which had become insupportable. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §5. 200 It was his settled purpose to fling off the yoke of the Baronage. 1924 H. B. Mackintosh Pilgrimages in Moray i. 11 The Moravians threw off the yoke of the Norsemen, but only for a time. 1955 Billboard 30 Apr. 4/4 The pilot film tells how Long John and his ship mates rescue a peace-loving tribe of islanders from the yoke of some Spanish pearl seekers. 1985 Times 12 Apr. 8/3 It would be ‘galling for anyone under the yoke of oppression in South Africa or Namibia’ to have to listen to urgings to non-violent change. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Mar. 37/2 The need for Russians to cast off the yoke of ‘Putinism’ and liberate themselves from the KGB state. < as lemmas |
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