In an automated car plant there is not a human operative to be seen.

在全自动汽车制造厂，一个工人也看不到。

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In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species.

在野外，它们是合作的群居物种。

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Swipe is the operative word: cards are increasingly vulnerable to attacks when you make purchases in a store.

“刷卡”是最关键的一个词：当你在商店购物时，信用卡越来越容易受到攻击。

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So I don't think that we should dismiss those threats. Brian Fishman says it is unlikely that Shahzad was a well-trained TTP operative.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Among them was Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina: "Our immigration laws prohibit the release of a terrorist operative within the United States,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Nabhan was believed to be a central operative for the global terrorist group al-Qaida.

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Prosecutors said the former officer leaked the name of a covert operative to a journalist, who subsequently disclosed it to a researcher working for the lawyer of a Guantanamo detainee.

BBC: Former CIA agent Kiriakou gets 30 months for name leak

Prosecutors said that in 2008 the former officer leaked the name of a covert operative to a journalist, who subsequently disclosed it to a researcher working for the lawyer of a Guantanamo detainee.

BBC: Ex-CIA officer Kiriakou 'made peace' with leak decision

They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record.

CNN: No Saints In New Orleans