operatives

英 [ˈɒpərətɪvz]

美 [ˈɑpərətɪvz]

n.  工作人员; (尤指)技术工人，操作员; 密探; (尤指政府的)特工人员
operative的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 运作（或运转）着的；起作用的；产生影响的
  A system or service that isoperativeis working or having an effect.
  1. The commercial telephone service was no longer operative...
     商业电话服务已不再运营。
  2. The Youth Training Scheme was operative by the end of 1983.
     青年培训计划一直持续到1983年底。
• N-COUNT 工人；（尤指）技工，操作员
  Anoperativeis a worker, especially one who does work with their hands.
  1. In an automated car plant there is not a human operative to be seen.
     在自动化汽车制造厂看不到一个工人。
• N-COUNT 特工；间谍；密探；情报人员
  Anoperativeis someone who works for a government agency such as the intelligence service.
  1. Naturally the CIA wants to protect its operatives.
     美国中央情报局当然想保护其特工。
• PHRASE 关键词
  If you describe a word asthe operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  1. As long as the operative word is 'greed', you can't count on people keeping the costs down...
     只要“贪婪”仍是一切的出发点，就别指望人们会降低成本。
  2. A small dram of whisky may be prescribed by doctors for those over 60 to help them sleep. It is vital though to emphasize that 'small' is the operative word.
     医生可以建议60岁以上的老人少量地喝点威士忌以改善睡眠，然而至关重要的是必须强调“少量”这个关键词。

双语例句

• Naturally the CIA wants to protect its operatives.
  美国中央情报局当然想保护其特工。
• Hackers have taken on the Pentagon, and some suspect terrorist organizations of training their operatives to launch computer assaults.
  这么多的网络攻击事件传出后，顿时言论四起，有的说黑客已经攻破了五角大楼的防火墙，还有的说有些疑似恐怖组织正在训练特工，准备发起电脑袭击。
• Just like any political organisation, Taliban mid-level operatives and fighters have their own interests and must be motivated to follow orders.
  与所有政治组织一样，塔利班中层及普通战士也有自身利益，他们要有动力才会服从命令。
• He and his operatives are a powerful force.
  他和他的手下有一股强大的势力。
• Managers facing growing numbers of calls can always recruit more call centre operatives.
  面对呼叫数量的日益增多，经理可以招聘更多的呼叫中心操作员。
• We broke up a Southeast Asian terror cell grooming operatives for attacks inside the United states.
  我们破坏了一个东南亚恐怖小组策划在美国内部发起袭击。
• Such collective mutual-aid producers 'co-operatives should be extensively and voluntarily organized in all the anti-Japanese base areas in northern and central China. After liberation came the land reform, then the mutual-aid teams and then the producers` co-operatives.
  在华北华中各抗日根据地内，都应该在群众自愿的基础上，广泛组织这种集体互助的生产合作社。解放后又实行了土改，然后就是互助组、合作社。
• SOLDIER is a group of skilled combat operatives within the Shinra Company, who is rapidly increasing its influence through its monopoly on mako energy and military might.
  士兵一批熟练的战斗在神罗公司的操作工，谁是它的影响力迅速增加，通过其垄断地位对马可的能源和军事实力。
• They should also be advised that a Scorched Earth policy carried out by their operatives will not be tolerated and we have measures in hand should this be contemplated.
  我们会建议他们，他们的焦土政策是不会被我们容忍的，一旦发现，我们会立即采取措施。
• And it has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.
  而且它还帮助、训练、收容恐怖分子，其中包括阿尔凯达的特工。