operate on

基本解释

They may be able to operate on their own, but they need us to reproduce them.
他们可能有能力独自运转，但他们需要我们把他们生产出来。
If you vectorize this code, since you are treating the values as bytes, that means that each instruction will operate on 16 values at once!
如果对代码进行向量化，由于您正在将这些值当作字节进行处理，这意味着每条指令都要一次操作 16 个值！
Your first thought might be to add the method to one of your own classes as an instance method, but the method may not really operate on any of your own objects.
你第一个想到的可能会是把这个方法作为实例化方法，添加到你自己的类里，但是这个方法可能并不在你的任何一个对象上做真正的操作。

and he believes that is warning science fiction can deliver: "Science fiction can operate on many different levels.
So when you operate on the wave function, what you end up with is getting the binding energy of the electron, and the wave function back out.
所以当你将它作用于波函数时，你得到的是电子的结合能,和后面的波函数。
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But when you pass a parameter say, a list, you didn't think that you were not only passing the list, you were also passing the functions that operate on the list. In fact you are.
你不会认为你输入的不仅仅是链表，你还传递了处理链表的函数,实际上你正是这么做的,这往往不重要。
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"GROVER is just like a spacecraft but it has to operate on the ground, " Comberiate said.
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