"We have tried to make that airfield operate as absolutely as efficiently as possible."

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In particular functions that operate on the data, perhaps on other data as well. The key idea here is to bind together the data and the functions that operate on that data as a single thing.

特别是处理数据的函数，也可能处理其他数据,这里的关键思想就是,将函数和操作数据的函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"So altogether we are pleased now after eight days." "Of course we still have got eight days to go, but there is no reason to believe that those next eight days will not operate as smoothly as we have done so far."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Hobbes, as we see, sometimes writes as a sort of scientist or proto-scientist for whom nature and one supposes the laws of nature operate with the same kind of necessity as the laws of physical attraction.

霍布斯有些时候,像科学家或者原科学家一样写作,对他来说，自然和自然法,与另一种必需法则,即物质吸引的法则共同作用。

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She learned to plan an airplane flight as a navigator, operate a radio and fly a plane.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The trustees operate all the companies as one and pay profits to the stockholders.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

"Today,the goal of modern apocalyptic terrorism is often to do as much disruption as possible and kill as many as possible in order to realy shake up the way in which societies operate and governments make decisions and make the pain so high that decisions are reassessed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

We must seek rapid growth of Afghan national security forces, and that is the army and the police, and we must improve their effectiveness and our own through closer partnering, and this means we must plan together, live together, operate together and take advantage of each other's strengths as we move forward,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

I don't want to be an alarmist here." "But the one thing that is very important is that as the ISAF (NATO) forces operate in the areas near the Pakistan border, that the impact on Pakistan be taken into account at all times and that the Pakistani security forces are properly aware of what the military actions are so they can do what is necessary to protect your border,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.04