新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

operateIELTS重点词汇

英 [ˈɒpəreɪt]

[VERB]

词汇频率：

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？
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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。
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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。