operate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 操作， 运转， 开动， 起作用， 动手术，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this time he was so awed that he would have permitted the clinic surgeons to operate on him for any ill which at the moment they happened to fancy.
-- At clinic luncheons he met surgeons from London, New York, Boston; men with limousines and social positions and the offensive briskness of the man who has numerous engagements, or the yet more offensive quietness of the person who is amused by his inferiors; master technicians, readers of papers at medical congresses, executives and controllers, unafraid to operate before a hundred peering doctors, or to give well-bred and exceedingly final orders to subordinates; captain- generals of medicine, never doubting themselves, great priests and healers; men mature and wise and careful and blandly cordial.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nowyou may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr.Copperfield will take the chair I'll operate on him.'
-- I took the liberty of representingthat we had been patient for a good many years; and that thecircumstance of Sophy's being extraordinarily useful at home,ought not to operate with her affectionate parents, against herestablishment in life- don't you see?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind, that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him,--as it were, to operate upon,--and he would drag me up from my stool (usually by the collar) where I was quiet in a corner, and, putting me before the fire as if I were going to be cooked, would begin by saying, "Now, Mum, here is this boy!Here is this boy which you brought up by hand.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heat I had con-tracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly ex-tinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the question arises, Is this one disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.
-- But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale's hump.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer had decided, as has been said, to operate near the veins both of coal and ore. Now, according to his observations, these veins were situated at the foot of the northeast spurs of Mount Franklin, that is to say, a distance of six miles from their home.
-- Lastly, whatever may be the cause, our globe will become cold some day, but this cold will only operate gradually.
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