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

VOA: special.2009.04.26

If we were recreating an ability to provide some part of what we do, or what we'd like to do, how would we do it?

如果我们再创造一种能力,做我们在做的事，或我们想做的事，怎么办？

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Electron affinity is actually the ability of an atom, or we could also talk about an ion to gain electrons.

电子亲和能其实就是一个原子，或者我们也可以讨论离子获取电子的能力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

Because you'll have an appropriate level of confidence and competence in your ability to do computational problem solving.

因为你们在自己的能力范围内,拥有应对解决计算问题的,正当水平的自信心和竞争力。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.08.18

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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The good news is that when China sets its sights on reducing pollution,it has shown an extraordinary ability to reduce emissions."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

There we go. Now if I do this, an infinite number of times, we should get roughly 50/50, but now we have the ability to do things only once in awhile.

开始，如果我们，不停地按这个按钮，我们大致会有一半的机会听到猫叫，但是我们每次只有一次按按钮的机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"And so decisions that federal agencies are making will have an enormous impact in our ability to wisely adapt to climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

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

Peter Harling, an Iraq specialist at the International Crisis Group in Damascus, countered that al-Qaida has shown a remarkable ability to replace its leaders.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

But railroads revolutionized an American sense of time, their ability to travel.

但是铁路改变了美国人的时间观念,他们有能力去旅行

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The speed and magnitude of the crisis surprised the government and aid agencies and has put an enormous strain of their ability to provide assistance.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

So, when we're talking about the idea of electronegativity, essentially what we're talking about is the ability for an atom to attract electron density from another atom.

那么，当我们在讨论电负性这一概念的时候，本质上我们讨论的是一个原子的吸引能力,用来吸引另一个原子的电子密度的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"So when you destroy an individual's ability to communicate, you have really destroyed one of the most important aspects that we have as a species."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

And so we saw that as well, the last piece we had here is the ability to create variables, which have their own values, and that's done using an assignment statement.

我们也可以看到，这里我们最后的是,创建了一些变量，这些变量都有自己的值，这是运用了赋值声明来完成的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"This is having an impact on their health. It is also reducing our ability to bring other kinds of assistance, such as vaccination campaigns against polio,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

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

(Music) Google is making changes to the way it handles news content, in an apparent attempt to appease news providers who claim the Internet search giant is undermining their ability to charge subscribers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

In the Oval Office, Prime Minister Harper said he does not worry that the Taliban could form an alternative government in Afghanistan, but that he is concerned about the Afghan government's ability to maintain security.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16