- 工作,作业;运转,运行:
The machine is operating continuously.
那台机器一直在不停地运转。
- 起作用;发生影响:
The medicine gradually operated and the elephant fell down on the field.
药力渐渐起了作用,那头大象一头跌倒在地上。
What you said operated as an incitement on me.
你的话对我起了激励作用。
- 活动;行事:
He operated in an American company.
他在一家美国公司供职。
The air line service is to operate daily.
这条航线每天都有班机飞行。
- 施加影响;产生理想效果,见效:
The medicine operated quickly.
这药很快就奏效了。
- (尤指大规模地或投机性地)从事证券(或商品)交易
- 以不正当手段谋生:
to operate by reselling train tickets
以倒卖火车票谋生
- 【外科学】施行手术,开刀
- 【军事】
- [口语]以欺骗手段(或巧妙方法)取得;使用欺诈手段,行骗:
to operate with the children
对儿童行骗
- 【计算机】操作,运算