It also found that the children's ability was not dependent on the amount of time they had spent in child care.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.

存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Socrates is not harmless because of his own professed ability to attract followers, a few today, a few more tomorrow.

苏格拉底并非无害,因为他擅长吸引信徒的能耐,今天几个，明天再几个。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But Roberto Clemente was loved not only for his ability in sports, but also for the kind of person that he was.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

not just our imagination-- they stretch our ability to understand when and where change is possible.

不只延伸了我们的想象，还让我们能理解,怎样的时间和地点，有可能产生变化。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Even his strongest critic praised his writing ability, even if they did not agree with what he wrote.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

So it's not that we're somehow throwing away our ability to do that.

但这不是,我们费了这么大的力气所要做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She was an insecure person. She did not think she had the ability to do an important job.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Your P-functioning is actualized now, because you're engaged in thought, but you don't lose the ability to think during those moments when you're not thinking.

你的能力正在被实践，是因为你正在思考，但你没有在思考的时候也没有,失去思考的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A number of politicians did not believe he had the ability to be president.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind immediately is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: special.2010.05.08

It's a difficult problem that not everyone is smart -they vary in their ability -so we try to make a world in which it's pretty safe for the small investor who's not paying attention.

不是所有人都是聪明人,这是个难题,大家能力不同,所以我们试图营造一个环境,一个让小投资者感到安全的环境,而无需忧心忡忡

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

" Senator Clay did not think Taylor had the ability to be president.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The fact that I have one, you know, five hundred thousandth of the vote for one representative in congress is not the same thing as my having the ability to decide for myself how to use my property rights.

事实是，我只有一张选票，50万选民才票选出,一位国会议员,这与我能自己决定如何行使我的财产权,是两回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Imagine a swimmer in water over his head You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Now finally swap has the ability, the power, to modify memory that isn't his own, that's not in his own scope because we've passed it in by address.

最终swap有能力，来修改不属于它的内存，不在它的作用域中,因为我们是通过地址传递的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Edward Yingling says it restricts the ability to price credit for risk -- in other words, to charge more for those more likely not to repay their debts.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I think Afghanistan is still winnable, in the sense of our ability to ensure that it is not a launching pad for attacks against North America.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

he would answer that he did not have the ability.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat, or for their ability to control weeds and help renew grasslands, or even for their ability to be gentle around children.

VOA: special.2010.09.07

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Whether it is intended or not, the missile launches serve as an implicit reminder to South Korea of the North's ability to inflict massive damage on very short notice.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

"This is a victory because we have affirmed that the ability to live a healthy life in our great country is a right and not merely a privilege for the select few,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"We not only lost our land, but we lost a lot of our fundamentals in terms of the ability to move across the land, the ability to express ourselves, our traditional forms of government."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

In the rural district of Kitgum in northern Uganda, soldiers are reportedly taking part in medical, dental and engineering projects that not only test their ability to work together, but can assist the local community.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The level of violence is up. I worry a great deal about the overarching impact of the global financial crisis on not just Afghanistan or Pakistan, but all of us in our ability to resource this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

They should have some courage, and they should stop it. It is no good for the players, and somehow I hope the players have the ability around the world to stand up and say we are not playing on this, plain and simple."

VOA: standard.2009.06.07