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

• It is used to clarify, confirm, and document the environment in which the system operates.
  系统上下文用于对系统所在的操作环境进行澄清、确认和编写文档说明。
• The Single Transferable Vote System operates.
  单一可转让投票体制开始运作。
• The company operates three factories and a coal mine.
  那家公司经营三个工厂和一个煤矿。
• Designs and operates information and reporting systems, procedures and controls to meet external financial reporting requirements.
  设计并运行信息和报告系统，程序和控制措施使其满足外部财务报告的要求。
• With cosmetics and clothes, she operates a simple rule of thumb.
  而对化妆品和衣服，她经营着一个简单的经验法则。
• A formal structure for the organization provides the framework in which the organization operates and carries out its goals.
  组织的正式结构提供了组织在其中运作和实现其目标的框架。
• Our factory operates round the clock on three shifts.
  我们厂日夜三班倒。
• 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。
• 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。