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. 羁绊; 枷锁
noun [抽象名词]矿区的分界;配轭
The farmer was yoking his oxen to a plough. 每个农民都知道怎样把牛拴在一起。