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单词 workhorse
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Definition of workhorse in English:

workhorse

noun ˈwəːkhɔːsˈwərkˌhɔrs
  • 1A horse used for work on a farm.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We experimented with teams of Percheron and Belgian workhorses.
    • Edmund kept two horses for himself, but the rest were workhorses for the land or pulling carriages.
    • After 26 years of horse power, we sold our six workhorses (yes, we were guilty of ‘get bigger or get out’), completing our switch to using hand power.
    • As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.
    • They are workhorses and the one I chose is both affordable and powerful.
    • They tend to be more workhorses than show horses.
    1. 1.1 A person or machine that dependably performs hard work over a long period of time.
      the aircraft was the standard workhorse of Soviet medium-haul routes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Coming from Land Rover, which had made its name in producing rugged off-road workhorses used by farmers, the military and police the world over, the new model aimed to continue the tradition.
      • Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.
      • Motors and drives - the workhorses of many dairy plants - can play an important role in lowering kilowatt hours.
      • And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.
      • Despite all this, the truck, a workhorse used by farmers and builders throughout the world, still managed to drive into the Top Gear studio after only relatively minor repairs.
      • The Hercules aircraft used by the RAAF are slow by modern standards, but the big four prop engine planes are reliable workhorses used, of course, the world over.
      • Lloyd was a workhorse out of the Blue Jays' bullpen in 1999, and that may have been one of the factors that led to his shoulder surgery in 2000.
      • Common diode lasers - the type used in laser pointers and grocery-store scanners - are cheap laboratory workhorses for colors ranging from orange to infrared.
      • Thundering across fields remains the preserve of a small band of well-built, farm-ready workhorses with indestructible axles.
      • Galvanometers are the workhorses behind many laser-based, materials-processing applications such as ablating, cutting, drilling, marking, and welding.
      • He's also near the top of the offensive rebounding charts and is among the NBA's biggest workhorses in terms of minutes played.
      • They're sort of workhorses of the airline industry.
      • Communications satellites have become the workhorses in this area due to their effectiveness and efficiency.
      • Transistors are best known as the workhorses of the computing world; a computer's microprocessor chip contains millions of these tiny, voltage-controlled switches.
      • Sure, you've got tanks and jeeps, but the real workhorses of this war are helicopters and PBR patrol boats.
      • He's a workhorse on a team that plays hard defensively, but provides little cushion offensively.
      • If jazzy products and packages are the show horses, a dairy's filling process can be considered the workhorse of an operation.
      • ‘They've been the workhorses of the industry and are absolutely our best friends,’ the microbiologist says.
      • Gradually he made a name for himself as (so he put it) a workhorse and not a show horse; his fellow senators came to admire him.
      • Chunky, practical and uninspiring, it used to be nothing more than a dependable workhorse.
      Synonyms
      hard worker, toiler, stakhanovite, galley slave
 
 

Definition of workhorse in US English:

workhorse

nounˈwərkˌhôrsˈwərkˌhɔrs
  • 1A horse used for work on a farm.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We experimented with teams of Percheron and Belgian workhorses.
    • They are workhorses and the one I chose is both affordable and powerful.
    • They tend to be more workhorses than show horses.
    • As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.
    • Edmund kept two horses for himself, but the rest were workhorses for the land or pulling carriages.
    • After 26 years of horse power, we sold our six workhorses (yes, we were guilty of ‘get bigger or get out’), completing our switch to using hand power.
    1. 1.1 A person or machine that dependably performs hard work over a long period of time.
      he was a workhorse of an actor, often appearing in as many as forty plays in a year
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.
      • ‘They've been the workhorses of the industry and are absolutely our best friends,’ the microbiologist says.
      • Chunky, practical and uninspiring, it used to be nothing more than a dependable workhorse.
      • Sure, you've got tanks and jeeps, but the real workhorses of this war are helicopters and PBR patrol boats.
      • Coming from Land Rover, which had made its name in producing rugged off-road workhorses used by farmers, the military and police the world over, the new model aimed to continue the tradition.
      • He's also near the top of the offensive rebounding charts and is among the NBA's biggest workhorses in terms of minutes played.
      • Despite all this, the truck, a workhorse used by farmers and builders throughout the world, still managed to drive into the Top Gear studio after only relatively minor repairs.
      • Transistors are best known as the workhorses of the computing world; a computer's microprocessor chip contains millions of these tiny, voltage-controlled switches.
      • The Hercules aircraft used by the RAAF are slow by modern standards, but the big four prop engine planes are reliable workhorses used, of course, the world over.
      • Communications satellites have become the workhorses in this area due to their effectiveness and efficiency.
      • Common diode lasers - the type used in laser pointers and grocery-store scanners - are cheap laboratory workhorses for colors ranging from orange to infrared.
      • And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.
      • Lloyd was a workhorse out of the Blue Jays' bullpen in 1999, and that may have been one of the factors that led to his shoulder surgery in 2000.
      • They're sort of workhorses of the airline industry.
      • Thundering across fields remains the preserve of a small band of well-built, farm-ready workhorses with indestructible axles.
      • Gradually he made a name for himself as (so he put it) a workhorse and not a show horse; his fellow senators came to admire him.
      • He's a workhorse on a team that plays hard defensively, but provides little cushion offensively.
      • If jazzy products and packages are the show horses, a dairy's filling process can be considered the workhorse of an operation.
      • Galvanometers are the workhorses behind many laser-based, materials-processing applications such as ablating, cutting, drilling, marking, and welding.
      • Motors and drives - the workhorses of many dairy plants - can play an important role in lowering kilowatt hours.
      Synonyms
      hard worker, toiler, stakhanovite, galley slave
 
 
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