operate

1. V-T/V-I If you operate a business or organization, you work to keep it running. If a business or organization operates, it carries out its work. 经营; 运营

Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard. 直到1986年去世，格林伍德一直拥有并经营着一个规模巨大的梨园。

...allowing commercial banks to operate in the country. …允许商业银行在本国运营。

2. operationN-UNCOUNT 经营

Company finance is to provide funds for the everyday operation of the business. 公司财务将为公司业务的日常运转提供资金。

3. V-I The way that something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect. 起作用

Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently. 天花板和墙上的灯能够独立操控。

How do accounting records operate?

结算记录是如何运作的？

4. operationN-UNCOUNT 运行

No money can be spent on the construction and operation of the tram. 没有钱可以用于有轨电车的建设和运行。

5. V-T/V-I When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work. 操作; 运转

A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine. 那些男人在驾驶隧道掘进机时，一次大面积的岩崩困住了他们。

6. operationN-UNCOUNT 操作

...over 1,000 dials monitoring every aspect of the operation of the aeroplane. …监控着飞机每项操作的1000多个调节控制器。

7. V-I 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. 动手术

In March 2005, surgeons operated on Max for a brain aneurysm. 2005年3月，外科医生们为马克斯做了脑部动脉瘤手术。