yoking

基本解释

The farmer was yoking his oxen to a plough.
每个农民都知道怎样把牛拴在一起。
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.
不过联想并不是通过分月付款形式，而是允许消费者以购买一定的上网时间去支付一半的电脑价款。
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.
使德国的两个人民党在一个政府中强制结合，将会遏制在任何一种民主形式下，对政策制定这场肉搏都至关重要的主流反对声音的连贯性。

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.