Operate

(verb.) happen; 'What is going on in the minds of the people?'.

(verb.) handle and cause to function; 'do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol'; 'control the lever'.

(verb.) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; 'She is running a relief operation in the Sudan'.

录入:普勒斯顿

• This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We separate from Butler so that he cannot be directed how to co-operate. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Morgan Was foot-loose and could operate where, his information--always correct--led him to believe he could do the greatest damage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• No class will abolish itself, materially alter its way of living, or drastically reconstruct itself, albeit no class is indisposed to co-operate in the unlimited socialization of any other class. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If they do not operate, the blame is put not on the subject as taught, but on the indifference and recalcitrancy of pupils. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The telegraph operating-room was in a deplorable condition. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• There were supposed to be Italian troops concentrated in Soria, and at Siguenza again besides those operating in the North. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If she had succeeded in doing so, the intricate knot which I was slowly and patiently operating on might perhaps have been cut by circumstances. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Ingenious forms of hand-operated ironing machines for turning over and ironing the edges of collars, and other articles, are in successful use. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This shutter was wound up by a spring operated by a pull cord. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They would have been considered as guests of the public, and the religion of the country would have operated in their favour. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This machine had eight or ten spindles driven by cords or belts from the same wheel, and operated by hand or foot. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The cylinder stops, and current operates the sluggish press-magnet, causing its armature to be attracted, thus lifting the platen and its projecting arm. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Where they remark the resemblance, it operates after the manner of a relation, by producing a connexion of ideas. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There is a definite way of understanding the situations in which the habit operates. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In this machine a device is also arranged which operates to stop the machine at once if any thread is broken. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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