general-purpose machine

基本解释

It is this way, so the pump as a general-purpose machinery, machine-building industry which is one of important product categories.
正是這樣，所以把泵列爲通用機械，它是機械工業中的一類重要産品。
The magic of the PC is that it is a general-purpose machine to which new functions can be added simply by installing a new piece of software.
個人計算機的魅力在於它是一種多用途的機器，任何新功能可以通過安裝一套軟件而實現。
Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a general-purpose machine learning method developed in recent years, by which good results have been obtained in many classification and function-fitting problems.
支持曏量機（SVM）是近年來發展起來的一種通用的機器學習方法，在許多分類問題和函數擬郃問題上都已獲得了很好的傚果。

The PC managed to stay vital longer because it was a more general-purpose machine--exciting new applications were invented for it on a regular basis.
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