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.
正是这样，所以把泵列为通用机械，它是机械工业中的一类重要产品。
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.
个人计算机的魅力在于它是一种多用途的机器，任何新功能可以通过安装一套软件而实现。
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.
支持向量机（SVM）是近年来发展起来的一种通用的机器学习方法，在许多分类问题和函数拟合问题上都已获得了很好的效果。

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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