operate

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v. 操作, 运转, 动手术, 活动

发音

UK /ˈɒpəɹeɪt/
US /ˈɑpəɹeɪt/

词形变化

operated operates 三单 operates operating operating 现在分词 operated 过去式 operated 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

运转;动手术;起作用

to cut into someone's body in order to repair or remove a part that is damaged

动词

操作;经营;引起;对…开刀

Doctors had to operate to remove the bullet.

医生不得不开刀取出子弹。

释义与例句

v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

    不及物 及物

    Could someone explain how this meeting operates?

    In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.

    The police had inside knowledge of how the gang operated.

  2. 2.

    To produce an effect.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To produce an effect.

    To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To produce an effect.

    To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

    不及物
  5. 5.

    To bring about as an effect; to cause.

    及物
  6. 6.

    To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

    动手术

    不及物 及物 医学

    The surgeon had to operate on her heart.

    I'm being operated tomorrow.

  7. 7.

    To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

    不及物 及物
  8. 8.

    To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

    操作

    及物

    to operate a machine

    to operate a system

    to operate a casino

词汇关系

词源

From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

来源:wiktionary