yokefellow

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
    — I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side.
  2. Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse. archaic
    — [H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.

词形变化

yokefellows plural yoke-fellow alternative yoke fellow alternative

词源

From yoke + fellow. Compare Ancient Greek σύζυγος.
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