operates

英 [ˈɒpəreɪts]

美 [ˈɑːpəreɪts]

v.  运转; 工作; 操作; 控制; 使运行; (被)使用; (使)运转
operate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG 经营；管理；运营；运作
  If youoperatea business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organizationoperates, it carries out its work.
  1. Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.
     到他1986年去世前，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。
  2. ...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country...
     允许商业银行在该国开展业务
  3. Operating costs jumped from £85.3m to £95m.
     运营成本从8,530万英镑激增至9,500万英镑。
• VERB 工作；起作用
  The way that somethingoperatesis the way that it works or has a particular effect.
  1. Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...
     吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。
  2. How do accounting records operate?...
     账目是如何记录的？
  3. The world of work doesn't operate that way.
     职场上可不是那样的。
• V-ERG 操作，控制，使用（机器、设备等）；（机器等）运转，运行
  When youoperatea machine or device, or when itoperates, you make it work.
  1. A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine...
     这些工人在操作隧道挖掘机时被大量的落石困住了。
  2. The number of fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.
     现在全球使用的传真机数量已达到了1,000万台。
• VERB （对…）动手术
  When surgeonsoperate ona patient in a hospital, they cut open a patient's body in order to remove, replace, or repair a diseased or damaged part.
  1. The surgeon who operated on the King released new details of his injuries...
     为国王动手术的外科医生通报了其伤势的最新详情。
  2. You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.
     先为病人作检查，然后再决定是否做手术。
• VERB （在某一地区）作战，执行任务
  If military forcesare operating ina particular region, they are in that place in order to carry out their orders.
  1. Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique...
     多达1万名津巴布韦士兵正在莫桑比克执行任务。
  2. This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.
     这使得奥地利军队可以对法军作战。

双语例句

• The company operates nationwide through its network of agents and contacts.
  该公司通过代理商和业务联系在全国经营业务。
• In our case the transistor turns off and the transformer operates in flyback mode.
  在我们的情况下，晶体管的关闭和变压器模式工作在反激。
• The tourist office operates a useful room-finding service.
  这家旅游办事处提供十分实用的住宿查询服务。
• If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way, he said.
  如果你明白了宇宙的运转方式，在某种程度上你就能控制它。他说。
• The industry operates with less government control these days.
  如今政府对该产业的控制减少了。
• Its film industry operates in its own curiously hermetic way
  其电影产业以它奇特的与世隔绝的方式运作。
• The train operates the 2,400-mile round trip once a week.
  这趟火车每周一次往返行驶2,400英里。
• A bus service operates between Bolton and Salford.
  博尔顿和索尔福德之间有一班公共汽车往返。
• The legal system operates very differently in the US and britain.
  美国和英国法律制度的运作很不同。
• RSH, which works with brands including Zara and mango, operates across Asia and the Middle East.
  与zara和mango等品牌合作的rsh，在亚洲和中东地区经营业务。