operate的意思是：v.操作；运转；经营；动手术。operate的词语用法是v.(动词)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。operate的读音是英['ɒpəreɪt]；美['ɑːpəreɪt]。
一、详尽释义点此查看operate的详细内容
二、英英释义
"She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
"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"
"do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"
"control the lever"
"What is going on in the minds of the people?"
"engaged the gears"
"The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
三、词典解释
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。
四、例句
It's too difficult for him to operate this new sophisticated machine.
对他来说,操作这台复杂的机器太难了。
The lift doesn't operate properly.
这台电梯运转不正常。
They operate three factories and a huge warehouse.
他们经营三家工厂和一个大仓库。
A large number of factories operate in the red.
许多工厂都是负债经营。
The doctor began to operate on the boy.
医生开始给那个男孩动手术。
五、常见句型
六、词汇搭配
七、常见错误
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。
operate的相关近义词
act、go、handle、manage、perform、run、serve、use、work
operate的相关临近词
operation、operant、operated、operater、operate as、operate on、operateable、Operate gas、operate off、operate for、operate tour、operate sell