operation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 运转， 开动， 操作， 手术， 运算， 经营，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：
-- They don't talk about saving lives but about 'losing cases'--losing dollars!And they wouldn't even mind losing cases if it was a sensational operation that'd advertise 'em!They make me sick!How many of 'em do you find that're interested in the work Ehrlich is doing in Germany-- yes, or that Max Gottlieb is doing right here and now!Gottlieb's just taken an awful fall out of Wright's opsonin theory."
-- The flat was full of literature and decoration: a bronze Buddha from Chicago, a rubbing of Shakespeare's epitaph, a set of Anatole France in translation, a photograph of Cologne cathedral, a wicker tea-table with a samovar whose operation no one in the University understood, and a souvenir post-card album.
-- His earnest feeling regarding the nasal septum was that it never hurt any patient to have part of it removed, and if the most hopeful examination could find nothing the matter with the patient's nose and throat except that he was smoking too much, still, in any case, the enforced rest after an operation was good for him.
-- He assisted at an emergency abdominal operation at three o'clock in the morning.
-- Then behold the Dr. Martin Arrowsmith who had once infuriated Angus Duer and Irving Watters by his sarcasm on medical standards upholding to a lewdly grinning Bert Tozer the benevolence and scientific knowledge of all doctors; proclaiming that no medicine had ever (at least by any Winnemac graduate) been prescribed in vain nor any operation needlessly performed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that his face was turned away from the strange flower on the paper, it was extremely pale and wore a look of anguish, as though he had just undergone an ago-nising operation or just been taken from the rack.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs.Markleham was so overcome by this generous speech (which, Ineed not say, she had not at all expected or led up to) that shecould only tell the Doctor it was like himself, and go several timesthrough that operation of kissing the sticks of her fan, and thentapping his hand with it.
-- The bell rang again so soon that I made a mere scramble of mydressing, instead of the careful operation I could have wishedunder the circumstances, and went down stairs.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath, was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coach-es past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank.
-- And besides the operation of this, as a general principle, you may be sure that Miss Fairfax awes Mrs. Elton by her superiority both of mind and man-ner; and that, face to face, Mrs. Elton treats her with all the respect which she has a claim to.
-- In this state of suspense they were befriended, not by any sudden illumination of Mr. Woodhouse's mind, or any won-derful change of his nervous system, but by the operation of the same system in another way. Mrs. Weston's poultry-house was robbed one night of all her turkeys evidently by the ingenuity of man.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak seized the cut ends of the sheaves, as if he were going to engage in the operation of "reed-drawing," and digging in his feet, and occasionally sticking in the stem of his sheep-crook, he clambered up the beetling face.
-- Several exclaimed meditatively, after this operation had been completed: "Oh, 'tis the new shepherd, 'a b'lieve."
-- Mistress and man were engaged in the operation of making a lamb "take," which is performed whenever an ewe has lost her own offspring, one of the twins of another ewe being given her as a substitute.
-- She made use of an unobserved minute whilst his attention was absorbed in the operation to arrange her plumes a little.
-- A tailor from Casterbridge was with him, assisting him in the operation of trying on a new coat that had just been brought home.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Goriot had unwound his coil of rope; he had covered the table with a blanket, and was now employed in rolling the flattened mass of silver into a bar, an operation which he performed with marvelous dexterity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was pained at this and sat still watching the operation of the fire.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my li-quor.
-- 'In three days your friend the secretary will be direct-ed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty's surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.
-- His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, remov-ing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are still within the region of the primordial soil, the soil in which took place the chemical operation of metals becoming inflamed by coming in contact with the air and water.
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