"Dopamine is considered a neurotransmitter that is crucial for our ability to perceive rewards and to be motivated in our behavior."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

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

just to be out like, leagues ahead of everybody else in terms of like brain ability.

就聪明才智来讲，任何人都无法和他相比。

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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

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

During that time, Branch Rickey tested Robinson's ability to deal with racial pressure he would face in the major league.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mister Schroeder believes the enzymes could be changed in some plants to increase their ability to store water.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

So that staggering amount of money then impairs the fund managers' ability to continue generating excellent returns, but they can stay in business and collect the fees that they get for having this huge pile of money.

于是这巨额的资金,会削弱基金经理,持续创造高收益的能力,但经理们依旧能保住饭碗,一如既往地从巨额资金中获得佣金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

At his ninety-fifth birthday party in March, Norman Borlaug told VOA that he was worried about the world's ability to feed itself.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

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

Their combined observing power gives the Very Long Baseline Array the ability to see the finest details of any telescope in the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

So, the mind gets destroyed when the ability of the body to function in that way has been destroyed.

所以,心灵也就伴随着身体,正常运作能力的毁灭而毁灭

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The other was the vaccine's ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Physiologists ran tests, showing, proving scientifically the limit of human ability was running the mile in 4 minutes.

生理学家进行实验，在科学上展示证明人类能力极限,是四分钟跑一英里。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But we must recognize that our fiscal health tomorrow will rest in no small measure on our ability to create jobs and growth today."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

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

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

So, my advice to anyone who's trying to improve their ability to write in English

因此，我给想要提高自己英语写作能力的人的建议是，

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Alfred Mutua says every child in Kenya has the ability to get the same education.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Their eyes are intact but rather what happens in agnosia is they lose the ability to recognize certain things.

他们的眼睛并未受到损伤,相反,失认症的症状是,患者失去识别某些事物的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Boas recognized Hurston's storytelling ability and deep interest in the black culture of the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The ability of an atom to attract electrons, and in particular, in a covalent bond.

原子对电子的吸引能力，特别是在共价键中。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This,scientists say, can affect the ability to taste meat and other foods high in protein.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

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

They also can interfere with mental ability,make muscles weak and cause pain in the head.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

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

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。

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