workhorse

1 A pantry workhorse, all-purpose flour is arguably the most versatile of all flours, used for everything from breading chicken to making pancakes and waffles to thickening gravies.

2 This is the real workhorse phase;

这是真正的主力阶段；

3 My husband never paid any attention to me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.

我丈夫从来不关怀我，我只是一个养育了三个孩子的老妈子而已。

4 Veirs, who jokes about making nine albums in obscurity, emerged as the trio’s workhorse.

5 Their marble-floored kitchen was a workhorse, with three stoves, open shelving, and two ceiling fans to keep the hot Chennai air moving.

6 Other computer pointing devices include light pens, graphics tablets and touch screens. but the mouse is still our workhorse.

其他的电脑点击输入设备包括：光信号笔，绘图板以及触摸屏。但是鼠标依然是我们的主要工作工具。

7 The workhorse… reliable, very rugged, corrosion resistant, lightweight, economical and easy to use.

可靠坚固，耐腐蚀，重量轻，经济实用。

8 Ms. Ferrin is showing pottery “upcycled” — that is, old workhorse objects remade into fine art ones — by Paul Scott, an expert in printing images in cobalt on ceramics.

9 Fishkill Farms has many old workhorse varieties like golden delicious and McIntosh, planted decades ago, among its 70 acres of apples.

10 HeLa was a workhorse: it was hardy, it was inexpensive, and it was everywhere.

11 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。

12 When we meet her at 30, she has willed her world into one of orderly precision and hospital corners; she’s an anxious striver, a workhorse, a maker of lists.

13 They are a workhorse of research into ageing, because they so reliably age and die in laboratory conditions.

14 "It is a 400-year-old workhorse: a stool, a table, something to stand on to reach a shelf – and often used to rest coffins on," he says.

15 “The difference it makes is amazing. It’s a ‘foundational’ flavor, a workhorse — not the star.”

16 Crime procedurals are the workhorse of the art form, which means viewers watch people, especially young women, get killed all the time, often in horrible ways.

17 The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the workhorse of the Semantic Web.

资源描述框架 (RDF)是语义Web的主要组成。

18 I’d been grinding like a workhorse for months but didn’t have much to show for it.

19 Rubba refreshes the workhorse, serving a round of racy minced beef in a circle of crisp potato coins and a liquid French onion dip that almost upstage the raw centerpiece.

20 Baking soda is a workhorse, it’s cheap and is a staple in my cleaning arsenal!

1 锯木架

buck sawhorse sawbuck

2 耕马

plough horse

3 吃苦耐劳的人

be a glutton for punishment

4 驮马

sumpter packhorse bathorse sumpter-horse pack horse