David Cameron and his office have now offered three partial answers about the fund set up by his father Ian, which avoided ever paying tax in Britain. The key unanswered question is whether the prime minister’s family stands to gain in the future from his father’s company, Blairmore.
HAVANA, Jan. 2 -- Tatiana González stood transfixed before the glass display case watching a single cellphone spin around and around on a carousel at the government-run store. It was a Nokia 1112, a simple, boxy gray workhorse of mobile telecommunications technology -- and González was in love.
(By William Booth, The Washington Post)
workhorse 役馬,馱馬
workhorse noun [C]
1 a person who does a lot of work, especially of a type which is necessary but not interesting: 幹重活的人,吃苦耐勞的人
a willing/reliable workhorse
2 a machine which operates without failing for long periods, although it might not be very interesting or exciting: 耐用[堅牢]的車輛[船隻,飛機,機器]
The steam engine was the workhorse of the Industrial Revolution.
每日一詞：workhorse，馱馬，做重活的人。烤箱被選為時報科技工坊專欄的年度小工具 ，作者Brian X. Chen寫道，像智能手機一樣，一個優秀的烤箱可以成為日常生活中的“老黃牛”(everyday workhorse)。 Workhorse一詞字面意思為專門用來馱東西的馬，故其也有經久耐用的機器、埋頭苦幹的人的意思。
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