The KIPP students who graduated from college were not the academic stars but the workhorses, the ones who plugged away at problems and resolved to do better.
Henrietta's HeLa cells helped doctors figure out, or understand, a lot about how cells grow and led to so many medical discoveries we might call them a workhorse, something which works extremely hard.
海里埃塔的 HeLa 细胞帮助医们弄明白或理解了很多关于细胞长的内容,并且催了如此多的医学发现,我们可以把它们叫做老黄牛,指的是工作极其辛苦的事物。
Turning these (and dozens of similarly modified types of creature) into people, as Dr Shapiro summarises their edible fates, while harnessing others as workhorses, has permitted human domination of Earth.
Using genetic engineering, the team managed to persuade a different bacterium-Escherichia coli, a ubiquitous critter that is a workhorse of biotechnology-to manufacture this protein in bulk.
The AIT or advanced imaging technology machine considered the workhorse of checkpoint security scans the contours of the body using millimeter wave technology.
This resulted not only in new fertility treatments, but later in AIDS and cancer breakthroughs, which is why Rebecca refers to HeLa cells as a workhorse, meaning someone who does a lot of work.
They're like the construction foremen of your bones, passing along commands to your skeleton's two main workhorses: the osteoblasts and the osteoclasts.