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词汇 operate
释义 operate
verb
uk /ˈɒp.ər.eɪt/ us /ˈɑː.pə.reɪt/

operateverb (WORK)


B2[ I or T ]
to (cause to) work, be in action or have an effect: (使)工作,(使)运行;运作;操作;起作用
How do you operate the remote control unit?你是怎么操作这个遥控器的?
Does the company operate a pension scheme?这家公司实行养老金制度吗?
For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement.有好几年她在她的地下室公寓里经营一个婚姻介绍所。
Changes are being introduced to make the department operate more efficiently.这个部门正在实行改革以提高工作效率。
Specially equipped troops are operating in the hills.特种装备部队正在山里进行军事行动。
We have representatives operating in most countries.我们在大多数国家都有代表开展业务。
Exchange rates are currently operating to the advantage of exporters.目前的汇率变动有利于出口商。
The video provides instruction on how to operate the computer.这盘录像教人们如何操作计算机。
This sewing machine is operated by a foot pedal.这台缝纫机是用脚踏板来操作的。
The legal system operates very differently in the US and Britain.美国和英国的法制体系相去甚远。
Terrorists have been operating covertly in England for several years.
The scheme is simple and cheap to operate.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - Functioning
action
actuator
deactivation
faultily
faulty
fire someone up
function as something/someone
functionally
light
operative
peg
peg out
play something up
power
power (something) up
refire
reset
road
tick
working

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Performing a function

operateverb (MEDICAL PROCESS)


B1[ I ]
to cut a body open for medical reasons in order to repair, remove, or replace an unhealthy or damaged part: 开刀,动手术
If the growth gets any bigger they'll have to operate.如果肿瘤再长大一些,他们将不得不动手术。
Are they going to operate on him?他们打算给他做手术吗?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: surgery
ablate
adenoidectomy
adrenalectomy
allograft
amputation
anaesthesia
blood transfusion
endarterectomy
endonasal
enterostomy
enucleate
enucleated
general anaesthetic
mastectomy
prostatectomy
pump something out
reduction mammaplasty
regraft
reimplant
suture

operate | American Dictionary


operate
verb
us/ˈɑp·əˌreɪt/

operateverb (WORK)


[ I/T ]
to work or cause something to work, be in action, or have an effect:
[ T ]How do you operate the remote control unit?
[ I ]Changes are being introduced to make the department operate more efficiently.

operateverb (USE MEDICAL PROCESS)


[ I ]
to cut a body open in order to repair, remove, or replace an unhealthy or damaged part:
Doctors will operate on her tomorrow morning.

operate | Business English


operate
verb
uk /ˈɒpəreɪt/us
[ T ]
to use or control equipment or a machine or to make something work:
Older people are returning to classrooms for instruction in everything from operating a mouse to mastering spreadsheets.
[ I ]
if a business, system, etc. operates in a particular way, it works or is used in that way:
Changes are being introduced to make the department operate more profitably.
Exchange rates are currently operating to the advantage of exporters.
operate as sthThe company operates as an international delivery service for produce trading companies.
operate through sb/sthCentralized lenders operate through mortgage brokers and insurance companies.
operate at sthThe plant is operating at barely 30% of capacity.
[ I ]
to do business in or from a particular place:
operate across/in/from sthWe operate in 50 countries around the world.
We have representatives operating in most countries.
operate out of sthThe organization operates out of a small office in the centre of town.
[ T ]
to manage a business, service, etc. and make it work:
The company operated 156 fewer stores this year.
We began operating a pilot service earlier this year.
Does the company operate a pension plan?

Examples of operate


operate
In the procedure of calculation above, it can be easily seen that the next step is being operated with the remainder of the former step.
They have a vested interest in teaching it just as surgeons have a vested interest in operating on people.
I observed and took notes of each interaction from a distance and operated the tape-recorder myself.
But if both processes are operating, what explanation provides a synthesis?
These systems operate actively over many repeated hearings.
In section 3.1 we discuss how to represent tables and how to operate on tables.
Developmentalists show that these schemas operate between language and perception, thereby facilitating semantic development.
Further, structural conditions may affect how the processes identified here operate.
They favored the creation of strong central bureaucratic authorities to ensure that the new agglomerations of private power operated ultimately in the public interest.
It is also the case that historic preservation virtually never operates this way either.
This suggests that any scaffolding provided by previous utterances operates at a highly lexically-specific level at this stage in development.
A heavy-duty mobile manipulator while carrying a load, experiencing a force, or operating on uneven terrain needs to maintain its balance.
This was in part because it wanted to keep on good terms with the government that was operating in its interests.
In fact, a change of pressure is the practical way to optimize a given machine (fixed geometry) to operate in a certain regime.
Modulation of the oil flow in the main valves is presently controlled by the pilot oil pressure through manually operated pilot control valves.
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