workhorse

noun

1. 埋头苦干的人；老黄牛（指吃苦耐劳的人）；耐用的机器
   a person or machine that you can rely on to do hard and/or boring work

1. 役马;耕马
   A workhorse is a horse which is used to do a job, for example to pull a plough.
2. N-COUNT 吃苦耐劳的人;老黄牛;重负荷机器
   If you describe a person or a machine as a workhorse, you mean that they can be relied upon to do a large amount of work, especially work that is dull or routine.
   1. ...the Wellington bomber, the great workhorse of the war...
      在战争中立下汗马功劳的威灵顿轰炸机
   2. My husband never even looked at me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.
      我丈夫甚至从不看我一眼。我只是个任苦任劳养育3个孩子的机器。

1. My husband never even looked at me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.
   我丈夫甚至从不看我一眼。我只是个任苦任劳养育3个孩子的机器。
2. This year, though, it was all about the workhorse.
   然而，今年的展会上，主力机型独领风骚。
3. TestNG's flexible and parametric fixtures make it an excellent workhorse for defining Selenium's driven acceptance tests.
   TestNG以其灵活性和参数化fixture成为定义Selenium的驱动验收测试的首选。
4. The JVM is the workhorse behind the Java application functionality and performance that most Java developers take for granted.
   JVM是多数开发人员视为理所当然的Java功能和性能背后的重负荷机器。
5. The problem, which is also the workhorse of the Internet, is TCP.
   问题就是TCP，它同时也是互联网的主力。
6. Another workhorse environment variable is the shell's PATH, which enumerates directories to search for an executable.
   另一个重要的环境变量是shell的PATH，它列出了搜索可执行文件的目录。
7. Given that the list is the workhorse of the Python container types ( as you'll see many times throughout the rest of the articles in this series), this example may seem overly simplistic.
   既然list是很灵活的Python容器类型（您将在本系列其余的文章中多次看到它），本例看起来可能过于简单了。
8. But one of Linux's most important strengths is serving as the workhorse of the storage domain.
   但是Linux最重要的优势之一是作为存储领域的主力。
9. The Poseidon is based on a commercial Boeing 737-800 jetliner, the workhorse of the global fleet more accustomed to flying routes such as Washington, D.C. to Chicago than loitering over the southern Indian Ocean.
   P-8A波塞顿侦察机是在波音737-800商用客机的基础上开发设计的。作为全球舰队的主力，P-8A波塞顿更习惯于飞行华盛顿到芝加哥这样的航线，而不是在南印度洋上方巡航。
10. There are around 1,000 Boeing 777s in service, and the plane is a long haul workhorse, plying some of the longest routes.
    全球共有1000架波音777客机正在使用中。飞机是一个长距离运输的交通工具，担负着一些最长距离航行的任务。
11. Lithium-ion battery technology is in many ways the workhorse of portable power.
    锂离子电池技术在很多方面都是移动电源的主力军。
12. It will take a lot of work to take it from what it is to what we want it to be, which is a practical workhorse.
    还需要做很多工作才能把目前的它变成我们想要的它。
13. But some corporate customers worry Microsoft has made its workplace workhorse too unfamiliar.
    不过一些企业客户担心，微软让这套在工作场合应用广泛的主力操作系统变得令人过于陌生了。
14. In the meantime, the mathematician's domain of cryptography based on difficult-to-compute mathematical problems continues to be the practical workhorse for security today.
    但同时，这些属于数学家研究范围内的，难以用计算机计算来解决的数学难题形式的加密算法将会持续不断地给当今的安全工作者们增加许多实际的工作负担。
15. This will be the workhorse of China's lunar programme.
    这是中国登月项目中的“老黄牛”。
16. Didier Drogba has explained how a summer summit meeting with Jose Mourinho transformed him from an expensive workhorse into the Premiership's most deadly striker.
    迪迪尔-罗巴向人们解释了他在夏天与穆里尼奥进行了高层会晤以后，他是怎样从一个高新蓝领蜕变为现今英超联赛中最致命的杀手。
17. The RewriteRule directive is the real rewriting workhorse.
    指令是重写动作的真正执行机构。
18. Dr Wang has managed to reassign one of the stop codons in E.coli, the bacterial workhorse of geneticists, to recognise an unnatural amino acid.
    王博士已经成功的让大肠杆菌（遗传学家的常用工作菌种）中的一个密码子重新分配去编码一个非自然氨基酸。
19. This is the workhorse function which can be used to print text in columns.
    这是主力的功能，可用于打印的列中的文本。
20. First of all, I have to admit the Tak Le is not suitable for viewing jupiter, even if it has been my workhorse for two and half years.
    首先，我必须承认，德乐，是不适合观赏木星即使我一直员工，为两年半。
21. Future coaches would suspect the glamour boy of being a showman but he always remained a workhorse.
    他后来的教练们可能会感到疑惑：这位魅力男孩怎么会成为一位善于作秀的人物。不过，他向来是一个能吃苦的人。
22. I finally decided on a Lenovo workhorse of a computer.
    最后我决定要买一台联想的重负荷的电脑。
23. Would details of workhorse habits like Porat's seem as remarkable in a story about a male executive?
    放到关于男性高管的报导当中，像波拉特这样的敬业表现还显得突出吗？
24. Their workhorse has been the bar.
    他们的驮马就是bar。
25. A flexible workhorse with an airy and extended high frequency response the KM-3 is ideal for overheads or detailed reproduction of acoustic instruments.
    一个具有通风和扩展高频响应的知识-3是间接费用或声乐器详细繁殖的理想灵活的设备。
26. Jerry's always a willing workhorse.
    杰里一向是个心甘情愿挑重担的人。
27. The workhorse economic forecasting models used by central banks are built in such a way that they cannot capture financial shocks and bubbles.
    央行使用的主力经济预测模型的建构方式决定了它们无法捕捉到金融冲击和泡沫。
28. The need to establish a retail presence has become more acute in recent years, as the PC has evolved from a workhorse used mainly for word processing and office applications into a digital hub for photos, music and movies.
    近年来，建立零售业务的需求已变得越来越紧迫，因为个人电脑已从主要用于文字处理和办公应用软件的笨重机器，演化为为图片、音乐和电影的数字中心。
29. The workhorse of the UEF air efforts, the Scorcher is an effective area bomber that is useful against all types of targets, both mobile and stationary.
    UEF空军中的蓝领，酷暑是个非常有效率的区域轰炸机，无论是对移动目标还是对固定目标而言。

noun

1. a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor

2. machine that performs dependably under heavy use
   1. the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world