operate /ˈɒpəˌreɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( operating, operated, operates )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work. 经营; 运营

  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个规模巨大的梨园。

  例：

  ...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country.

  …允许商业银行在本国运营。

• 2. 

  operation N-UNCOUNT 经营

  例：

  Company finance is to provide funds for the everyday operation of the business.

  公司财务将为公司业务的日常运转提供资金。

• 3. 

  V-I The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect. 起作用

  例：

  Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.

  天花板和墙上的灯能够独立操控。

  例：

  How do accounting records operate?

  结算记录是如何运作的？

• 4. 

  operation N-UNCOUNT 运行

  例：

  No money can be spent on the construction and operation of the tram.

  没有钱可以用于有轨电车的建设和运行。

• 5. 

  V-T/V-I When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work. 操作; 运转

  例：

  A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine.

  那些男人在驾驶隧道掘进机时，一次大面积的岩崩困住了他们。

• 6. 

  operation N-UNCOUNT 操作

  例：

  ...over 1,000 dials monitoring every aspect of the operation of the aeroplane.

  …监控着飞机每项操作的1000多个调节控制器。

• 7. 

  V-I 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. 动手术

  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手术。