英汉词典

operate 基本解释

• vi. 运转；动手术；起作用
• vt. 操作；经营；引起；对…开刀

operate 词态变化

operate 中文词源

来自拉丁语operari,工作，劳作，创作，来自PIE*op,工作，劳作，生产，词源同opus,office.引申词义运作，操作，手术等。

operate 英文词源

operate

operate: [17] Operate belongs to a small family of English words that trace their history back to Latin opus ‘work’, which may be related to Sanskrit ápas ‘work’, Old English afol ‘power’, and Latin ops ‘wealth’ (source of English copious, copy, and opulent [17]). Its most direct English descendant is of course opus [18] itself, which was originally adopted in the phrase magnum opus ‘great work’. Opera [17] goes back to the Latin plural, which came to be regarded as a feminine singular noun meaning ‘that which is produced by work’.

Italian gave it its musical sense, and passed it on to English. Operate itself came from the past-participial stem of the derived Latin verb operārī ‘work’. It was originally used in English for ‘produce an effect’, and the transitive sense, as in ‘operate a machine’, did not emerge until as recently as the mid-19th century, in American English. The surgical sense is first recorded in the derivative operation [16] at the end of the 16th century.

Other English descendants of opus include cooperate [17] and manoeuvre.
=> copious, copy, manoeuvre, opera, opulent

operate (v.)

c. 1600, "to be in effect," back-formation from operation, or else from Latin operatus, past participle of operari "to work, labor, toil, take pains" (in Late Latin "to have effect, be active, cause"). Surgical sense is first attested 1799. Meaning "to work machinery" is from 1864 in American English. Related: Operated; operating. Operating system in the computer sense is from 1961.

operate 英文释义

1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.;

"She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"

2. perform as expected when applied;

"The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"

"Does this old car still run well?"

"This old radio doesn't work anymore"

3. handle and cause to function;

"do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"

"control the lever"

4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

5. happen;

"What is going on in the minds of the people?"

6. keep engaged;

"engaged the gears"

7. perform surgery on;

"The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

operate 双语例句

1. Hotels operate a collection service for their guests from the airports.

宾馆为客人提供机场接机服务。

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2. Trains will operate from Waterloo with a pick-up stop at Ashford.

火车从滑铁卢站出发，途中会在阿什福德站停靠上人。

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3. They now own and operate a farm 50 miles south of Rochester.

他们现在拥有并经营着一家位于罗切斯特以南50英里处的农场。

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4. This boat has a good deck layout making everything easy to operate.

这艘船的甲板布局合理，使得所有操控都很方便。

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5. 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。

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operate 实用场景例句

Most domestic freezers operate at below –18˚C.

多数家用冰柜能制冷到零下18摄氏度以下。

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Solar panels can only operate in sunlight.

太阳能电池板只能在日光下起作用。

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(figurative)Some people can only operate well under pressure.

有些人只有在压力下才工作得好。

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What skills are needed to operate this machinery?

操作这种机器需要什么技能？

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A new late-night service is now operating.

现在推出一项新的深夜服务。

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The regulation operates in favour of married couples.

这一规定的实施有利于已婚夫妇。

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The airline operates flights to 25 countries.

这家航空公司经营飞往25个国家的航班。

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France operates a system of subsidized loans to dairy farmers.

法国对奶农实行补贴贷款制度。

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They plan to operate from a new office in Edinburgh.

他们计划由爱丁堡的新办事处经营。

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Illegal drinking clubs continue to operate in the city.

非法饮酒俱乐部继续在城内营业。

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The doctors operated last night.

医生昨夜做手术了。

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We will have to operate on his eyes.

我们得给他的眼睛动手术。

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Troops are operating from bases in the north.

部队正从北部基地发动军事行动。

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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。

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

允许商业银行在该国开展业务

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Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...

吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。

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How do accounting records operate?...

账目是如何记录的？

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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