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

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Now I have the ability to say, I've got a new class, I can create instances of a line segment, and it's elements are themselves instances of points. OK?

这就是我们要讲模块化的地方了，现在我可以说，我创建了一个新类，我可以创建线段的实例了,这些实例的元素？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So it's really based on ability a lot more than in other places.

所以，它确实比其他地方更靠能力。

热门工作 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Experts say the ability to take up lead is reduced when the pH level is above six and a half.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Talk of smiles is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to smile, to form a smile.

我们会谈到笑只是为了表达,肉体具有笑的能力,能够微笑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And then, finally, the last tactical skill that you're going to get out of this course is you're going to have the ability to map scientific problems into a computational frame.

接下来，你们将带着走出这个课堂的,最后一个技能是,你们将学会,把科学问题,转换进计算机的框架之内。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Last month, American scientists began work on a project aimed at improving the ability to predict tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

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。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some people call the Waterboxx a water battery because of its ability to collect and store water.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Other symptoms include a loss of the ability to move normally or a loss of balance.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

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

The findings suggest that the human brain has developed this special ability as a survival method.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Having that ability to close off a chapter and move on is really, really important.

结束一个章节,并且继续向前的能力非常重要。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

This is a way of introducing cytotoxicity or cell killing ability into a cell, and that's been used to treat many kinds of cancers, particularly cancers of the brain.

这种方法常用来导入细胞毒素,或者赋予细胞杀伤其他细胞的能力,以治疗多种癌症,特别是脑癌

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But what it is quite clear is that it left the hands of government the ability to pick winners and losers and that is a very dangerous power.

但显而易见的是,政府有生杀大权,掌握公司的命运,这是非常危险的权。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Experts say a reduction of only four or five percent in body water leads to a drop of twenty to thirty percent in work ability.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

On the other hand, these voices spoke of a faith born in that suffering which open them up to the presence of God and the ability to place their suffering into the context of Christ suffering.

但另一方面，这些声音也表明信仰的存在,它从苦难中诞生，使受苦的人们,向上帝敞开心扉,使其能够将自己所受的苦,与上帝所受之苦联系起来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The researchers found a link between swearing and an increased ability to deal with pain.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

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

And studies have found that it helps protect against a decrease in mental ability.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Dementia is a loss of intellectual ability that affects memory, learning,attention,thinking and language skills.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Well, a smile is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to do something.

笑就是我们表达,肉体某项能力的一种方式

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That same year,doctors discovered a deadly brain tumor, which limited his ability to work.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now I have the ability to create a loop, that is, to reuse the same pieces of code over and over again as I go around.

现在我们已经学会如何创建循环了，也就是，重复的一遍又一遍的,执行同一片代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选