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单词 warhorse
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warhorse
noun
uk
/ˈwɔː.hɔːs/us
/ˈwɔːr.hɔːrs/

warhorsenoun(PERSON)

[C]informal
anoldandexperiencedpolitician,soldier, orathlete,especiallyone who is stillactive:
老谋深算的政客；老兵；老运动员
Manchester City'soldwarhorse, stillfightingfitat 36, wassentoff forfoulingafterhalfanhour.36岁仍活跃在场上的曼城足球俱乐部老将半小时后因犯规被罚下场。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experienced
  • cosmopolitan
  • duck
  • experienced
  • grandmother
  • have been around the ridgesidiom
  • old-timer
  • pedigreed
  • practised
  • ridge
  • sea dog
  • seasoned
  • sophisticate
  • super-sophisticated
  • take tosomethinglike a duck to wateridiom
  • teach your grandmother to suck eggsidiom
  • ultra-sophisticated
  • urbane
  • veteran
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise
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Competitors & participants in sports & games

warhorsenoun(SHOW)

[Cusually singular]oftendisapproving
apieceofmusic,televisionshow,play, or otherperformedpieceofworkthat has often beenperformedorshownand is veryfamous:
老牌的节目；看家的节目
I don'tunderstandwhy aballetcompanycan'tperformfreshnewmaterialinsteadof justbringingout the sameoldwarhorsesyearafteryear.我不能理解为什么一个芭蕾舞团不能上演一些新鲜素材的节目，而要年复一年地重演那些老剧目。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Spectacles & performances
  • aerobatic
  • amateur theater
  • balancing act
  • bullfight
  • bullfighting
  • double-header
  • minstrel show
  • music hall
  • non-musical
  • one-night stand
  • one-person
  • routine
  • spectacle
  • spectacular
  • street theatre
  • strip
  • stripping
  • striptease
  • super-spectacle
  • supershow
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(Definition ofwarhorsefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Age was starting to catch up with the oldwarhorse, though he was still fighting in main events.
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Next came the equestrians ("equites", sometimes translated knights), originally those who could afford awarhorse, who formed a powerful mercantile class.
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Warhorseas being the album's most intense moment.
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Warhorsebaseball has made an appearance in the state championship three times, most recently in 2005, but has failed to win.
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The town still had the mint and supplied awarhorseand warship for the king's service in return for its privileges of self-government.
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The eleventh-centurywarhorsewas usually smaller, usually no taller than 12 hands; 14 to 15 hands at the largest.
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A knight'swarhorsewas trained to bite and kick.
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On arriving in the city he mounted awarhorseand without hesitation led an impromptu attack on the invaders who had still not penetrated beyond the suburbs.
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As the examples suggest, some entries are old warhorses, whereas others are less familiar.
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Despite the presence of powerful local nobles, the grand duke held strategic estates, especially studs of warhorses and forts on the country's frontiers in the west and north- and south-east.
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The military leaders are warhorses, in the sense that they have nosebags filled with paper put about their necks every morning.
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I hope that the old political warhorses will not come out again, determined to keep all education down to the level of comprehensives.
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Children, especially, were required to collect these: paper, glass, tin foil, and also large quantities of foliage to feed the warhorses.
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In battle the squires would follow the brothers with the spare warhorses.
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The pages' horses, like those of the archers, were not warhorses.
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