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

• Orders to intelligence operatives often enjoin secrecy.
  对情报间谍的命令常需要保密。
• Naturally the CIA wants to protect its operatives.
  美国中央情报局当然想保护其特工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A darkling glance; secret operatives and darkling conspiracies-Archibald MacLeish.
  可怕的一瞥；秘密的间谍和暗中进行的阴谋&阿奇博尔德·麦克利什。
• 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。
• One of the best operatives in the field.
  这个行业中最出色的人之一。
• 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。
• People murdered by government operatives.
  政府高层谋杀了太多人。