1 V-ERG 经营;管理;运营;运作 If you
operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organization
operates, it carries out its work.
经营;管理;运营;运作 -
Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard. [VERB noun]
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。
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...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country. [VERB]
允许商业银行在该国开展业务
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Operating costs jumped from £85.3m to £95m. [VERB-ing]
运营成本从8,530万英镑激增至9,500万英镑。
2 VERB 工作;起作用 The way that something
operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.
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Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently. [VERB adv./prep.]
吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。
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How do accounting records operate?. [VERB adv./prep.]
账目是如何记录的?
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The world of work doesn't operate that way. [VERB adv.]
职场上可不是那样的。
3 V-ERG 操作,控制,使用(机器、设备等);(机器等)运转,运行 When you
operate a machine or device, or when it
operates, you make it work.
操作,控制,使用(机器、设备等);(机器等)运转,运行 4 VERB (对…)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.
(对…)动手术 SYN perform surgery, carry out surgery, put someone under the knife [informal]
5 VERB (在某一地区)作战,执行任务 If military forces
are operating in a particular region, they are in that place in order to carry out their orders.
(在某一地区)作战,执行任务 ThesaurusWord Partnership
Thesaurus | operate Also look up: |
VERB. | function, perform, run, work; (ant.) break down, fail 2 3 |
Word Partnership | Use operate with: |
N. | operate a business/company, schools operate 1 forces operate 1 2 |
ADV. | operate efficiently 1 2 operate independently 2 |
VERB. | be allowed to operate, continue to operate 1 2 4 |
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