1. Who operates that machine?
    那台机器由谁操作？

2. The department store is well operated.
    那家百货公司经营得法。

3. That business operates in several countries.
    那家商行在几个国家有业务活动。

1. His company operates in several countries.
    他的公司在几个国家有业务活动。

2. The machine is not operating properly.
    机器运转得不正常。

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. 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. 经营；管理；运营；运作
    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，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。
    e.g. ...allowing commercial banks to operate 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 something operates is the way that it works or has a particular effect.

    e.g. Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently...
           吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。
    e.g. How do accounting records operate?...
           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 you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.

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    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 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...
           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 to operate.
           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 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 to operate against the French.
           这使得奥地利军队可以对法军作战。

1. perform surgery on

    e.g. The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life

    Synonym: operate on

2. happen

    e.g. What is going on in the minds of the people?

3. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

    Synonym: manoeuvermaneuvermanoeuvre

4. handle and cause to function

    e.g. do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol
           control the lever

    Synonym: control

5. keep engaged

    e.g. engaged the gears

    Synonym: engagemeshlock

6. perform as expected when applied

    e.g. 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

    Synonym: functionworkgorun

7. direct or control
    projects, businesses, etc.

    e.g. She is running a relief operation in the Sudan

    Synonym: run