喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the person with their hands on the controls. The crane, the , the bus, the whole airline — whatever the thing is, the operator is not the owner and not the passenger, but the one who makes it run. the machine into a business and you get the company that runs it; it again, half joking, into other people, and you get the person who works a room the way a driver works a set of levers.

可以想成手放在控制桿上的那個人。吊車、總機、公車、整家航空公司——不管那個東西是什麼，operator 不是擁有者，…更多收起可以想成手放在控制桿上的那個人。吊車、總機、公車、整家航空公司——不管那個東西是什麼，operator 不是擁有者，也不是被載的人，而是讓它動起來的人。把「機器」放大成一門生意，就得到經營那門生意的公司；再半開玩笑地放大到人身上，就得到那種在人群裡穿梭、像司機操作排檔一樣把人一個個搞定的角色。

Three branches

手放在機器上的人

最直接的用法：機器要有人操作，而這個字就是那個人的職稱。

machine operator · noun · B2

A person whose job is to make a machine or piece of equipment work.

操作員

經營一門生意的人或公司

把「操作的東西」從一台機器放大成一整套營運：航線、電信網路、遊覽車隊——operate 一門生意，就成了那門生意的 operator。

business operator · noun · B2

The company, or person, in charge of running a particular kind of business.

業者

把人也操作得很順的人

同樣的畫面用在人際上：他手上的控制桿是別人的想法和情緒，拉一拉就把事情推到自己要的方向。

manipulator, schemer · noun · B2

Someone who is very good at getting what they want by persuading other people.

手腕高明的人

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

operatornoun/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/

  • 1

    A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.

    • The drone crashed because of operator error.
    • The new bus operator has promised to improve the frequency of rural services.
  • 2

    A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.

    • To get an international line, you used to have to go through the operator.
    • I kept getting "number unobtainable", so I called the operator to find out what was going on.
  • 3

    A member of a military special operations unit.

  • 4

    A surgeon; one who performs medical operations.

    • Oh, a very well-known man. He has a great reputation as an operator for peritonitis.
  • 5

    The game of Chinese whispers.

  • 6

    informalA person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

    • Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit. Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.
  • 7

    mathematicssciencesA function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.

  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsA symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.

  • 10

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

    • In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.
  • 11

    transportA bus driver.

  • 12

    businessminingThe company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.

  • 13

    slangA thief or charlatan.

    • Sir Ol. Sirrah! I got many a round Sum by it, when my Father wou'd not give me a Groat—Then, Sir, I was in with all the Top Gameſters, and when there was a fat Squire to be fleec'd; I had my Office among them too, and tho' I ſay it, was one of the neateſt Operators about Town.
    • Hank was saying, "Lyssa showed me the screenshots of Nate's accounts, so we know he's helping himself to Nate's money every month. The guy's a real operator."
  • 14

    slangA major criminal.

    • He started bleating to me this morning aboot being stretched on this hippy stalk. A fuckin waste of time. Big operators flooding the city with smack and three-quarters of the cunts we bang up are daft schemies or students with a wee bit of hash or a few pills for their pals.
    • The second thing is that smart operators like Cocky are only in it for the (huge amounts of) money.
  • 15

    datedslangSomeone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.

    • I give credit to men who are great operators, as we once called them, with the girls. Once I was interviewing one of the most beautiful girls in the world in her suite at the Hotel Plaza. While she was busily denying to me that there was anything serious in her relationship with Warren Beatty, who should be barging into the next room of the suite with a lot of clothes being removed from another suite, but Warren Beatty?
    • "Of course you're right, but the Baron is unfortunately a bit of an operator, if you know what I mean. He likes the ladies," said Salvatore with a wicked grin. "So he never gets in until two, sometimes even three in the morning, and that's because he goes dancing at the Mela; he's quite a playboy."

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。