常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

yoke #2

カニエ・ウエストの愛娘の写真が初公開されました。

Kanye West shows off baby North

CNN) -- Kanye West has been called many things, but these days the best description -- according to him -- is family man.

The 36-year-old rapper appeared on Kris Jenner's daytime talk show "Kris" on Friday to discuss his relationship with Jenner's daughter, Kim Kardashian, and their new addition, North.

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Kim, he said, was always someone he dreamed about being with, but more importantly, he feels that they're "equally yoked."

"Being in the limelight, you have to have a match, or someone that's equally yoked," he told Jenner. "It's difficult, because there's people that you would date who would try to date you to maybe be more famous, or people who would want you to be less famous than you were, and just not accept who you are in life. And when I would be on the phone with her, even at my lowest moments, she'd give me energy and remind me of who I was. And I needed that support at all times."

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/23/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/kanye-west-kris-kim-kardashian/index.html?hpt=hp_t2&hpt=en_mid

以前に違う意味でのyokeが取り上げられています。http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20100914/1284458730

yokeは名詞で「くびき」「束縛、支配」といった意味ですが「(人・物を)結びつけるもの・きずな」という意味があります。(『ジーニアス英和辞典 第4版』大修館)
そして動詞は「…を結合する、一緒にする」あり、be yoked in marriageで「結婚で結ばれる」とあります。(ibid)
今回は「結婚する」の意味で使われています。

赤ちゃんの写真を見ましたが、とても可愛かったです。(Hatahata)