英语词汇yoked的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	yoked
词源	yoked. Yoked is today a synonym for “mugged.” It arose with 19th-century “Jumper Jacks,” or muggers, who preyed on sea- men, who yoked a sailor by grabbing him from behind by the yoke of his tight collar and twisting his neckerchief.
随便看	all-s well that ends well all systems go all that glitters is not gold all that meat and no potatoes all the bullet holes in the front of him all the news that-s fit to print all the tea in china all the traffic will bear all the world-s a stage all things are difficult before they are easy all this for a song all thumbs all vines an’ no taters all washed up all wool and a yard wide all wool and no shoddy almanac almighty dollar almond aloha aloha oe aloha shirt aloha state aloof alpha and omega

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