求助！operate on objects是啥意思，理解不了啊

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Because static methods don't operate on objects, you cannot access instance fields from a static method.
operate on objects到底啥意思啊？查了很多也不清楚，求大师给讲讲，谢谢谢谢您了！

开始以为operate on objects意思是：操作对象，但是在静态方法里可以new对象啊，这个应该算操作对象吧。

后来查字典，operate不及物动词有运行的意思，operate on还有给病人动手术的意思，然后就把operate on objects理解为：依靠对象运行。

但是后来看到这句话：The code that operates on that data is referred to as member methods or just methods.翻译成：依靠那个数据运行的代码被称作成员方法或仅方法，有点不通啊，感觉翻译成：操作那个数据的代码被称作成员方法或仅方法 更好。

还查到：First, as explained, inside vaTest( ), v is operated on as an array. 好像operated on在被动时候也是连着的。
还有这句：You can see how the | and & operate on each bit by the results in c and d.

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operate on objects是操作objects局部？依靠对象运行？运行在对象上？好像都不对啊
英语不好，谢谢大师了！

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operate on objects
直译：在对象上操作。
Because static methods don't operate on objects, you cannot access instance fields from a static method.
因为静态方法不在对象上操作，所以不能从静态方法访问实例字段。
这是百度翻译对整个句子的翻译结果。