He is a very shrewd operator with an incisive mind.

他是一位非常精明的经营者，有着敏锐的头脑。

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He dialled the operator and put in a call to Rome.

他拨通了接线员，往罗马打了一个电话。

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The operator will put you through.

接线员将为你接通电话。

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People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

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- And here as promised is that other operator -- looks a little weird, but because assignment is already using the equal sign to assign one value on the right to a variable on the left.

在这里正像所承诺的那样，其他的操作-,看起来有点怪异，但是因为“=“已经被用来当赋值运算符了,用来把右边的一个值赋值给左边的变量。

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So hopefully there is indeed a way to fix this, but it looks as though the division operator, the single slash is division but -- and here's a curiosity about many programming languages -- because 17 is an integer and because 13 is an integer, why do I say that?

我的确希望有一个方法来修正这个错误，但是看起来,好像那个除法操作，那个斜杠是除法,但是--对于很多编程语言来说,是挺奇怪的--因为17是一个整数,13也是一个整数，为什么我这样说？

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Cantalupo took Roberts' mystery-shopper idea--which many operators thought was designed to punish them--and made the data more operator-friendly.

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