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

• 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。
• As our organization's top spy kid operatives!
  他们是我们组织中的高级特工小子！
• 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。
• And it has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.
  而且它还帮助、训练、收容恐怖分子，其中包括阿尔凯达的特工。
• It has a deep hatred of America and our friends and it has aided, trained and harboured terrorists, including operatives of Al Qaeda.
  该政权仇恨美国和美国的盟国，它还援助、训练和包庇恐怖分子，包括“基地”组织人员。
• 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。
• Hackers have taken on the Pentagon, and some suspect terrorist organizations of training their operatives to launch computer assaults.
  这么多的网络攻击事件传出后，顿时言论四起，有的说黑客已经攻破了五角大楼的防火墙，还有的说有些疑似恐怖组织正在训练特工，准备发起电脑袭击。
• 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。
• 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。
• The June transfer of the Al-Qaeda operatives from Iran to Saudi Arabia reflects improving ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
  伊朗在六月间将盖达分子交给沙乌地阿拉伯的行动，反映了伊朗与沙国间的关系正趋于改善。