OSSIE DAVIS: "Baseball should be taken seriously by the colored player -- and in this effort of his great ability will open the avenue in the near future wherein he may walk hand in hand with the opposite race in the greatest of all American games -- baseball."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.

存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

"It will curb the ability of tobacco companies to market products to our children by using appealing flavors,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

So, these are all involved with our ability to maintain homeostasis by exchanging materials with the external environment.

这个过程关乎人体维持内稳态的能力,内稳态通过与外环境进行物质交换来实现

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The warning bells about India's ability to "deliver" the 2010 Commonwealth Games have been sounded by Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight, members of the same polis or city.

求知的能力,是我们透过双眼辨别，同一城邦或城市成员的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We learned that a secularly based freedom of speech guarantees access to everybody, by everybody and that no religious sensibility and no religious feelings should trump the ability of the individual to express themselves freely."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20