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

• Mr Kim's operatives then withdrew the money-in cash, in order not to leave a paper trail-and transferred it to banks in Luxembourg.
  金正日的手下在事情暴露之后转移了这笔款项。为了不给他人留下书面证据，这笔钱已经被转存到了卢森堡的银行。
• And we have captured or killed dozens of mid and high-level [ terrorist] operatives in the province and in the city of Mosul itself.
  我们俘虏或打死在尼尼微省和摩苏尔城活动的几十名中层和高层恐怖分子。
• I was imagining their operatives in Paris and germany.
  我想象着是巴黎和德国的电报员。
• Organize and instruct operatives to handle storage, delivery, inventory of material and analyze material management status.
  组织指导物料管理操作工开展物料的收货、存、放、管、点等管理工作，对物料管理情况进行分析。
• The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons.
  这个网络教授它的人员如何制作蓖麻毒素和其他毒药。
• Both cases focus attention on a group of interior ministry operatives who seemingly have wide powers of arrest.
  两案都令人关注一群似乎拥有广泛逮捕权的内务部官员。
• 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。
• 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。
• The June transfer of the Al-Qaeda operatives from Iran to Saudi Arabia reflects improving ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
  伊朗在六月间将盖达分子交给沙乌地阿拉伯的行动，反映了伊朗与沙国间的关系正趋于改善。
• Early evidence leads the team to suspect secret operatives are at work, and their theories are supported when the liquefied remains of a CIA agent are discovered in the trunk of a car.
  早期的证据领导小组怀疑秘密特工是在工作，他们的理论支持时，液化一名中央情报局特工仍然是在一辆汽车的行李箱中发现。