And more importantly, we like people who have the desire and ability to learn quickly.

更重要的是，有求知欲，并且有快速学习的能力。

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and I really liked, you know, the material and I felt like I had the natural ability for it,

我很喜欢课堂上接触到的那些会计知识，而且我感觉我在这方面有天赋。

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's because man alone has the faculty of speech and the ability to distinguish good from bad,and right from wrong.

这是因为人类有演讲的才能,也有能力,明辨是非,分辨正误

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I know it looks like a simple and silly little example, but at the moment, I still have the ability to go in and change the values of the parameters by that little definition.

很简单的有点儿蠢的例子,但是现在，我还是可以通过，一个简单的定义声明，来进去改变参数的值,这样就没意义了,这是因为我并没有用一些。

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But you do have the ability to affect public policy to an extent that it will be sensitive to the needs and issues of Muslims face.

不过你却有能力,在一定程度上影响国家政策,使其对穆斯林的需求与问题更加敏感。

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I was as skeptical as they come about TFA and my ability and all the rest.

我开始也怀疑组织,和自己的能力。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The world would suffer because the damage is substantial and it reduces our ability to produce.

世界仍然会受到损伤，因为破坏巨大,它降低了我们生产的能力。

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All states centralized, became larger and centralized their ability to extract resources from their population.

所有中央集权化制的国家,会变得更大,并集中所有能力,对人民敲骨吸髓

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But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

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And so, they may get visual agnosia and lose the ability to recognize objects.

因此,他们可能患有视觉失认症,从而失去识别物体的能力

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Milton seems to have accomplished something in writing Lycidas, ; almost as if he accomplishes it over the course of this very poem; and one of the things that he's accomplished is his ability to see himselfas someone who has accomplished something.

弥尔顿似乎在写作的过程中，得到了什么;,他所得到的其中之一就是,把自己看作有所成就之人的资格。

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Well it turns out a bunch of years ago people just decided that if we have the ability to express numbers and we actually care about expressing letters of the alphabet, well we just need some kind of mapping between one and the other, ASCII and so thus was born what's generally called the ASCII.

结果证实，数年前,人们觉得如果我们,有数字表达能力,而我们真正在乎其实是字符的表达，那么我们就需要数字和字符的某种对应关系，于是就有了俗称的。

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Well that counts on your ability to accurately assess what people are eating, or what the whole population is eating, and so measuring population intake is incredibly important to dietary recommendations.

要想准确评估人们在吃什么,或者整个,人类在吃什么,这只能依靠你的能力,所以统计总体摄入量,对饮食方面的建议非常重要

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We are beings for whom the exercise of the will is a preeminent feature and much of our happiness as human beings depends upon our capacity to exercise our will and our ability for choice.

作为人，意愿的运用是,一种卓越的特性，我们作为人大多数的幸福感,取决于我们运用,意愿和能力来选择。

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the artist doesn't get compensated and it really reduces the ability of the mechanism

艺术家得不到赔偿，这就真的降低了这个体制的能力，

不能非法下载 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The first excerpt is from Numbers 14, and it shows Moses' ability to placate the wrath of God.

第一个是来自《民数记》14的片段，展示了摩西,让盛怒的上帝平静的能力。

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