新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

operate

英  [ˈɒpəreɪt]
    

[VERB]

    VERB. 动词
  • operates , operating , operated

    1[I 不及物动词] 经营 , 运营

    If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work.

    双语例句

    例:

    Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.

    直到1986年去世,格林伍德一直拥有并经营着一大片梨园。

    例:

    allowing commercial banks to operate in the country.

    允许商业银行在本国运营。

    例:

    Operating costs jumped from £85.3m to £95m.

    经营成本从8530万英镑越升至9500万英镑。

    2[I 不及物动词] 起作用

    The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.

    双语例句

    例:

    Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.

    吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。

    例:

    How do accounting records operate?

    如何进行结算记录?

    例:

    The world of work doesn't operate that way.

    职场可不是那样的。 。

    3[I 不及物动词] 操作 , 运转

    When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.

    近义词

    run , work , function

    双语例句

    例:

    A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine.

    这些男人在驾驶隧道掘进机时被大量落石困住了。

    例:

    The number of these machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.

    全球使用的这些机器的数量现已达一千万台。

    4[I 不及物动词] 动手术

    When surgeons operate on a patient in a hospital, they cut open a patient's body in order to remove, replace, or repair a diseased or damaged part.

    双语例句

    例:

    In March 2005, surgeons operated on Max for a brain aneurysm.

    2005年3月,外科医生们为马克斯做了脑部动脉瘤切除手术。