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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some are found to undergo the painful operation of "moko" five times.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I intend to perform this operation now, if you like; after you, though, of course.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have heard, perhaps, of a common surgical operation resorted to in cases where the nose has been destroyed: a flap of skin is cut from the forehead, turned down on the nose, and heals in the new position.
-- A similar operation is the transfusion of blood, with which subject, indeed, I began.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The color of his skin dif-fered from that of most around him, being richer and darker, the latter having been produced by certain delicate and mazy lines of complicated and yet beautiful figures, which had been traced over most of his person by the operation of tattooing.
-- At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ar-dent leader.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 6th of April, at daybreak, the engineer and his companions were collected in the glade, at the place where they were going to perform the operation of baking the bricks.
-- The operation lasted forty-eight hours, and succeeded perfectly.
-- His companions, bending over him, watched the operation with extreme interest.
-- It was impossible, therefore, to return every day to the Chimneys, and it was agreed that the little colony should camp under a hut of branches, so that the important operation could be followed night and day.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had shifted the rope twenty-eight times, each operation taking a quarter of an hour, which in all made seven hours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond now appearing perhaps, to have been left hanging a trifle too long before that friendly operation of cutting down, he outwardly maintained an equable composure.
-- Ferdinand, meanwhile, was the only one of the party who skirmished on the outside of the circle; he kept about mid-way between it and the two, as if some sort of surgical operation were being performed by Lord Decimus on Mr Merdle, or by Mr Merdle on Lord Decimus, and his services might at any moment be required as Dresser.
-- He had concealed a dropsy from infancy, he had inherited a large estate of water on the chest from his grandfather, he had had an operation performed upon him every morning of his life for eighteen years, he had been subject to the explosion of important veins in his body after the manner of fireworks, he had had something the matter with his lungs, he had had something the matter with his heart, he had had something the matter with his brain.
-- The Patriarch, approaching with his usual benignity, was surprised to see Mr Pancks, but supposed him to have been stimulated to an immediate squeeze instead of postponing that operation until Monday.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
-- But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall remain on the whale till the whole flensing or stripping operation is concluded.
-- Thus much being said, attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and in this particular instance almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
-- To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
-- It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the copper, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval of this operation I took up the Bible and be-gan to read; but my head was too much disturbed with the tobacco to bear reading, at least at that time; only, having opened the book casually, the first words that occurred to me were these, 'Call on Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A big, motherly looking woman invariably stood guard at the door during the entire operation and counted the admissible number.
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