1. 經(jīng)營(yíng)；管理；運(yùn)營(yíng)；運(yùn)作
    If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running properly. If a business or organization operates, 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，格林伍德一直擁有并管理著一片面積廣闊的梨園。
    e.g. ...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country...
           允許商業(yè)銀行在該國(guó)開展業(yè)務(wù)

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

    e.g. Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...
           吊燈和壁燈可單獨(dú)開關(guān)。
    e.g. How do accounting records operate?...
           賬目是如何記錄的？

3. 操作，控制，使用（機(jī)器、設(shè)備等）；（機(jī)器等）運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，運(yùn)行
    When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.

    e.g. A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine...
           這些工人在操作隧道挖掘機(jī)時(shí)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.
           現(xiàn)在全球使用的傳真機(jī)數(shù)量已達(dá)到了1,000萬(wàn)臺(tái)。

4. （對(duì)…）動(dòng)手術(shù)
    When surgeons operate 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...
           為國(guó)王動(dòng)手術(shù)的外科醫(yī)生通報(bào)了其傷勢(shì)的最新詳情。
    e.g. You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.
           先為病人作檢查，然后再?zèng)Q定是否做手術(shù)。

5. （在某一地區(qū)）作戰(zhàn)，執(zhí)行任務(wù)
    If military forces are 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...
           多達(dá)1萬(wàn)名津巴布韋士兵正在莫桑比克執(zhí)行任務(wù)。
    e.g. This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.
           這使得奧地利軍隊(duì)可以對(duì)法軍作戰(zhàn)。