当然，当下一次部落需要扩张房屋或者其他的一些建筑时，他们将再次转向那些在第一次建筑时能力非凡的人。

Of course, the next time that tribe needed to expand their housing or other structures, they turned once more to those who had shown the most ingenuity in their first project.

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对大多数人来说，当我们培养起道德感和自我调节能力时，就会减少说谎的次数了。

For most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

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所有的学生毕业时都应具备计算和读写的能力。

All students should be numerate and literate when they leave school.

《牛津词典》

He introduced the concept of electronegativity which was a measure, therefore, it is quantitative, of the atom's ability to attract electrons within a covalent bond and developed a scale of electronegativity.

他引入了电负性这一概念,一个反映着原子在成共价键时吸引电子的能力的数据标度，因此这是数量上的，在共价电子中,电子原子能吸引电子,并发展为一定规模的电负性。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Second skill we want you to have at the end of this course is the ability to use a vocabulary of computational tools in order to be able to understand programs written by others.

我们想让你们在课程结束时,掌握的第二个技能,是有能力使用计算工具的语言,用来理解,别人编写的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It has capacities to make things happen in the world that he doesn't know how to control.

在理查还手足无措时,语言有能力改变一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选