The company is said to have never broken its contract with the government in its two and a half years of operation.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Alternatively,it might have been that Righty woke up, but Lefty doesn't wake up,doesn't survive the operation.

或者是，醒来的是小右，而小左没能熬过手术，再也没醒来。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As a result,those babies can have higher stress levels than those born without the help of the operation.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

We have to make sure that, in fact, that operation is not linear.

事实上，操作不是线性的，那让我来解释下这一点吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When she was in her twenties, her father arranged for her to have an operation on her brain to improve her mental condition.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

We'll talk about how your normal valves function inside your heart and how your heart couldn't work in the way that it did if it didn't have valves that were doing a very complex operation many many times a day.

我们会讨论,正常的瓣膜在心脏中如何工作,以及没有这个,每天不停完成很多复杂任务的心脏瓣膜,心脏为什么,就不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Pumps that were used to keep the mine dry have not been in operation since its closure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

It is going on for many years actually from the time of operation providr comfort with which I was involved in Northern Iraq when we realised that we would have civilian problems we need to develope civilian capacity to deal with these things.

这种状况已经持续了很多年了,从一开始在阿富汗北部,我参与的提供安慰行动,那时候我们就意识到我们缺少平民,我们需要更多的平民来解决这些问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A newspaper may report, for example, that police have arrested the suspected kingpin of a car-stealing operation.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Because of course,if I haven't had it no wonder I don't remember it but if I have had it,I would have been given that temporary sort of localized amnesia So of course I wouldn't know whether or not I've had it So you ask the nurse ?" "Have I had the operation yet or not?"

因为如果没有手术,难怪我不记得了,但如果手术了，我会被给予那种,短时间的局部失忆药物,所以当然我不知道有没有做了,你就问护士,“我做手术了吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Cleveland decided to have the operation on a friend's boat in New York Harbor.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Cleveland agreed. But he said the operation would have to be kept secret.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Four years later, he had to have another operation.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

"Now with this more intense fighting and military operation inside Waziristan, we have a daily outflow of from the area."

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And we have to get ourselves arranged for the next mission,the next operation, that we send our forces to.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Since the Israeli assault, rocket attacks from Gaza have continued, but in fewer numbers than before the operation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Soldiers have launched a massive rescue operation. The army has a heavy presence in the area, which shares a border with China.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

"The TTP is one of those. So when al-Qaida is able to do that, they don't have to develop their own operation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The troops were conducting an operation to find two missing U.S.soldiers who are believed to have drowned.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

He went abroad for the surgery. After some research,he decided to have his operation done at the Anadolu Medical Center outside of Istanbul,Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"If Madoff acted alone, it would all end right now. There is no way this kind of operation could have taken place all by himself."

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Newspaper columnists and some members of the opposition questioned the legality of the operation, and whether the flotilla could have been intercepted without using force.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The commando operation Monday appears to have been executed smoothly and with no civilian casualties.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The army has not provided evidence of the high number of militants killed, nor have officials attempted to project how many civilians have died in the operation.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Some news agencies have compared the operation to a military occupation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

Nine British soldiers have died in the operation dubbed Panther's Claw.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

While the military has not publicly set a date for any major operation in the area, U.N.officials say some 80,000 civilians have fled the region in anticipation of a new offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

They must have kept him under surveillance for a while." U.S.officials have been quoted as saying the operation Monday was launched when it became clear their target was traveling in an area away from heavy population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"The operation Lightning Thunder was launched, and to date we have no inkling from Kony or the LRA that they are willing to talk, or that they are cornered, or that they are under pressure."

VOA: standard.2009.08.27