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

• 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。
• Our operatives have the experience and relationships required to conduct investigations in the most effective manner.
  我们的操作有丰富的经验，并须进行最有效的方式调查的关系。
• 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。
• Naturally the CIA wants to protect its operatives.
  美国中央情报局当然想保护其特工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。