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operate

英 ['ɒpəreɪt] 美['ɑpə'ret]

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近义词manage function act handle on work run perform carry

vi. 运转；动手术；起作用
vt. 操作；经营；引起；对…开刀

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第三人称单数: operates;过去式: operated;过去分词: operated;现在分词: operating;

中文词源

operate 运作，操作，手术

来自拉丁语operari,工作，劳作，创作，来自PIE*op,工作，劳作，生产，词源同opus,office.引申词义运作，操作，手术等。

英英释意

1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.;: "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"

2. perform as expected when applied;: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"

3. handle and cause to function;: "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"

4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

5. happen;: "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

6. keep engaged;: "engaged the gears"

7. perform surgery on;: "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

英文词源

operate: operate: [17] Operate belongs to a small family of English words that trace their history back to Latin opus ‘work’, which may be related to Sanskrit ápas ‘work’, Old English afol ‘power’, and Latin ops ‘wealth’ (source of English copious, copy, and opulent [17]). Its most direct English descendant is of course opus [18] itself, which was originally adopted in the phrase magnum opus ‘great work’. Opera [17] goes back to the Latin plural, which came to be regarded as a feminine singular noun meaning ‘that which is produced by work’.

Italian gave it its musical sense, and passed it on to English. Operate itself came from the past-participial stem of the derived Latin verb operārī ‘work’. It was originally used in English for ‘produce an effect’, and the transitive sense, as in ‘operate a machine’, did not emerge until as recently as the mid-19th century, in American English. The surgical sense is first recorded in the derivative operation [16] at the end of the 16th century.

Other English descendants of opus include cooperate [17] and manoeuvre.
=> copious, copy, manoeuvre, opera, opulent
operate (v.): c. 1600, "to be in effect," back-formation from operation, or else from Latin operatus, past participle of operari "to work, labor, toil, take pains" (in Late Latin "to have effect, be active, cause"). Surgical sense is first attested 1799. Meaning "to work machinery" is from 1864 in American English. Related: Operated; operating. Operating system in the computer sense is from 1961.

考试真题

The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.

The shift to a low-carbon economy will help some firms, hurt others and require every organisation that uses much energy to rethink how it operates.

Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.

It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with shocking headlines.

Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you've visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.

In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal.

System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

With several monitoring stations operating in Antarctica, Russia is trying hard to counter America's dominance in the field of worldwide navigational facilities.

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Our modern workplaces also operate based on outdated time constraints.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

It will be easier to operate and maintain.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

While that may make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry that has until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.

They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

But onlyif they operate at near capacity,otherwise, their overall efficiency is poor.

But then most of communication operates without being noticed.

For us it'll have to operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures.

Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide.

I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behaviour might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.

I'm attracted to it, because culture isn't something that only shapes the way our minds operate.

It shapes the way our bodies operate, too, and sleep is at the intersection of those.

The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.

Computers are much easier to operate.

One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 Jackscrews.

Several safari camps operate as the base for this adventure, providing unique rides twice a day to explore deep into the delta.

She also operates a website, where she shares her tips and recipes, with the goal of demonstrating that everyone has the ability to control what's on their plate.

The programme beginning in August will operate in?

The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services.

They learn the principles of flight and test their operating skills in the cockpit(驾驶舱) of a variety of flight simulators.

With such models, scientists have found out some key principles operating in food webs.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.

The anticipation of possible shifts in demand provided by this study is significant: It gives a basis to all organization which seek to promote the learning and very different operating environment.

Srini pillay, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes this counter-intuitive link between downtime and productivity may be due to the way our brains operate.

实用场景例句

Most domestic freezers operate at below –18˚C.: 多数家用冰柜能制冷到零下18摄氏度以下。

Solar panels can only operate in sunlight.: 太阳能电池板只能在日光下起作用。

(figurative)Some people can only operate well under pressure.: 有些人只有在压力下才工作得好。

What skills are needed to operate this machinery?: 操作这种机器需要什么技能？

A new late-night service is now operating.: 现在推出一项新的深夜服务。

The regulation operates in favour of married couples.: 这一规定的实施有利于已婚夫妇。

The airline operates flights to 25 countries.: 这家航空公司经营飞往25个国家的航班。

France operates a system of subsidized loans to dairy farmers.: 法国对奶农实行补贴贷款制度。

They plan to operate from a new office in Edinburgh.: 他们计划由爱丁堡的新办事处经营。

Illegal drinking clubs continue to operate in the city.: 非法饮酒俱乐部继续在城内营业。

The doctors operated last night.: 医生昨夜做手术了。

We will have to operate on his eyes.: 我们得给他的眼睛动手术。

Troops are operating from bases in the north.: 部队正从北部基地发动军事行动。

Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.: 到他1986年去世前，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。

...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country...: 允许商业银行在该国开展业务

Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...: 吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。

How do accounting records operate?...: 账目是如何记录的？

A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine...: 这些工人在操作隧道挖掘机时被大量的落石困住了。

The number of fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.: 现在全球使用的传真机数量已达到了1,000万台。

The surgeon who operated on the King released new details of his injuries...: 为国王动手术的外科医生通报了其伤势的最新详情。

You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.: 先为病人作检查，然后再决定是否做手术。

Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique...: 多达1万名津巴布韦士兵正在莫桑比克执行任务。

This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.: 这使得奥地利军队可以对法军作战。

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