automate

UK:  ['ɔːtəmeɪt]

US:  ['ɔtə.meɪt]

第三人称单数：automates  现在分词：automating  过去式：automated  

v.

1.使(工厂、工序等)自动化

2.使用自动化技术于(某方面)

3.自动化作业

n.

1.自助食堂

1 . To help save time, tools can be used to automate, or at least partially automate, many tasks.
为了节约时间，可以使用工具让许多工作自动化，或者至少半自动化。

2 . I invite you to join in and experience how easily Ruby can automate routine parts of your work day.
我邀请你参与进来并体验Ruby是如何能够轻易的将你的工作自动例行化的。

3 . There is no doubt Foxconn and its peers will be able to automate their labour-intensive processes.
富士康及同类企业最终一定能够对它们的劳动密集型生产流程进行自动化改造，这是毫无疑问的。

4 . Thus it is difficult to automate this abstraction process; accordingly the analysis model is often created separately.
因此，很难对抽象过程进行自动处理，而分析模型通常是分别建立。

5 . So far IT has been used to automate and optimise processes within firms and other organisations as well as the dealings between them.
到目前为止IT已经被公司以及其他组织用来自动化以及优化过程，还有处理二者之间的问题。