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

• 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。
• He and his operatives are a powerful force.
  他和他的手下有一股强大的势力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One of the best operatives in the field.
  这个行业中最出色的人之一。
• Terrorists use the Internet to recruit operatives and plot attacks.
  恐怖分子利用互联网招兵买马和策划攻击事件。
• However, that co-operation, particularly on the question of the cross-border flow of Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives, could be significantly enhanced.
  不过，合作的运作，尤其是关于这个问题的跨国界流动的塔利班和盖达操作工，可显着提高。
• It has a deep hatred of America and our friends and it has aided, trained and harboured terrorists, including operatives of Al Qaeda.
  该政权仇恨美国和美国的盟国，它还援助、训练和包庇恐怖分子，包括“基地”组织人员。
• However, the huge sums spent by the super-pacs and the close ties between their operatives and the candidates have fuelled public cynicism about politics.
  然而，超级政治行动委员会的巨大花销、以及其成员与候选人之间的紧密联系，助长了公众对政治的怀疑态度。