1. 运转，运行，运作
2. 操作；操纵；控制；使用
3. 经营；营运；营业
4. 工作，作业，作出
5. 【军】作战，执行任务
6. 操作股票
7. 开动（机器）等
8. 管理
9. 产生效果；起作用；生影响，影响
10. 【医】动手术，开刀
11. 对...施行手术；对...开刀
12. 引起；产生
13. 使运行

1. vt. & vi. 运转,操作 work; be in action
2. vt. 经营,管理 manage
3. vt. & vi. 开刀,(对…)做手术 cut the body in order to set right or remove a diseased part

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 on the patient but failed to save his life"
   

1.经营；管理；运营；运作
If youoperate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organizationoperates, it carries out its work.

e.g. 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。
e.g. ...allowing commercial banks tooperate in the country...
允许商业银行在该国开展业务

2.工作；起作用
The way that somethingoperates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.

e.g. Ceiling and wall lights canoperate independently...
吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。
e.g. How do accounting recordsoperate?...
账目是如何记录的？

3.操作，控制，使用（机器、设备等）；（机器等）运转，运行
When youoperate a machine or device, or when itoperates, you make it work.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

4.（对…）动手术
When surgeonsoperate on a patient in a hospital, they cut open a patient's body in order to remove, replace, or repair a diseased or damaged part.

e.g. 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。
e.g. You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not tooperate.
先为病人作检查，然后再决定是否做手术。

5.（在某一地区）作战，执行任务
If military forcesare operating in a particular region, they are in that place in order to carry out their orders.

e.g. 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。
e.g. This freed the Austrian army tooperate against the French.
这使得奥地利军队可以对法军作战。

1. 操作：它是由一个终端用户/最终用户(end user)操作(operate)的,不需要电脑操作人员(computer operator). 它可以是台式机(desktop computer)、笔记本(laptop computer)或平板电脑(tablet computer).

2. operate

2. 起作用：例如,在一个波长上起作用(operate)的光交叉上的接口. 在GMPLS中,电路统一用标签交换路径(Label Switched Path)来表示. 在GMPLS中,通过嵌套LSP可以构建一个转发层次(forwarding hierarchy),也就是LSP的层次.

1. The lift was not operating properly.
   这电梯运转不正常。
2. Now regular bus services operate between the two cities.
   现在两座城市间已有公共汽车定期开行了。
3. This law operates universally.
   这个规律是普遍起作用的。
4. It may be necessary to operate.
   也许需要开刀。
5. The doctor decided to operate at once.
   医生决定立刻动手术。
6. The medicine will operate in ten minutes.
   十分钟后药就会见效。

1. It has been proved that various causes operated to bring about the accident.
   已经证实引起这次事故的原因是多方面的。

1. His job is to operate this machine.
   他的工作就是开这部机器。
2. The company operates three factories.
   这家公司经营三家工厂。

operate against (v.+prep.)

施行反对…fulfil planned actions against the enemy

operate from (v.+prep.)

从…开始 do one's work using a place as a base
operate from sth

The general operated from a tent on the battlefield.

将军在战地帐篷中进行指挥。

The company is presently operating from London, but is planning to move to the country.

该公司目前以伦敦为基地开展业务活动,但正计划搬迁到乡下去。

operate on〔upon〕 (v.+prep.)

产生作用 start to have effect
operate on〔upon〕 sb/sth

This famous doctor has operated on many important people.

这位名医为许多重要人物做过手术。

The surgeons operated upon him for a tumour.

外科医生为他施行了肿瘤切除手术。

I'm afraid that your leg will have to be operated on, there's no other way to stop the pain.

恐怕你的腿得做手术,没有其他办法止痛。

operate sb on sth

My father is a doctor, he operated a patient on the head last night.

我父亲是医生。他昨晚上给一个病人做了头部手术。

operate on sb/sth

The tractor operates on diesel oil.

拖拉机用柴油开动。

These reasons operated on the mind of the hearer.

这些道理在听者思想上产生了作用。

The medicine will quickly operate on such patients.

这种药很快就会在这种病人身上起作用。

• Rivalry usually operates as a stimulant to esteem.

  出自：T. Hardy

1. operate的基本意思是“运转”“操作”,多指开动(机器等),引申可表示“经营”“管理”,主要用于美式英语中。operate用作及物动词时,接名词、代词或动词不定式作宾语。
2. operate也可作“对…施行手术”“产生影响”解。此时常接介词on,再接某人或某人的某个部位。如果表达“为某人施某种手术”,则用介词for来引出“某种手术”,即operate on sb for sth,这种结构可用于被动形式。

operate, function, work

这三个词都有“功能”“作用”的意思。其区别在于： operate更强调成功大于结果; work暗示成功、有效; function暗示某物之目的、任务和结果。

operate, manage, run

三者都表示“经营”“管理”。它们的区别是：

1.operate含所有人与代理人共同经营的意思。

2.manage指对经营的工厂、商店等全面的监督,包括处理问题和日常事务,但不一定拥有所有权。例如:

She managed the shop while the owner was away.店主出门去的时候,她照管商店。

She manages the money very well.她理财有方。

3.run指使经营管理的工厂、企业等运转起来,多为自筹资金,拥有所有权。例如:

Mr. Smith runs a grocery shop.史密斯先生经营一家杂货店。

They ran the nurseries extremely well.他们把托儿所办得很好。

医生决定马上给病人做手术。

误 The doctor decided to operate the patient right away.

正 The doctor decided to operate on the patient right away.

外科医生为她施行了肿瘤切除手术。

误 The surgeons operated on her a tumour.

正 The surgeons operated on her for a tumour.

析 operate作“对…施行手术,对…开刀”解时须接介词on,再接某人,即operate on sb 结构。在表达“为某人施某种手术”时,则用介词for来引出“某种手术”,即operate on sb for sth 结构。

• ☆ 1600年左右进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的operari，意为工作，劳动。