workhorses
n. 馱馬,做粗工者,重負荷機器( workhorse的名詞複數 )
A workhorse is a horse which is used to do a job, for example to pull a plough.
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.
...the Wellington bomber, the great workhorse of the war...
在戰爭中立下汗馬功勞的威靈頓轟炸機
My husband never even looked at me. I was just a workhorse bringing up three children.
我丈夫甚至從不看我一眼。我只是個任苦任勞養育3個孩子的機器。
They led the workhorses to the watering trough.
他們把耕馬帶到飲水槽去飲水.
Van de Graaff generators are the current workhorses of nuclear structure research.
範德格喇夫加速器是研究原子結構的通用工具.
Transistors are the workhorses of electronics.
電晶體是電子技術的重要組成.