"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind immediately is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: special.2010.05.08

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

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

Imagine a swimmer in water over his head You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

You do have the ability to practice with a lot more freedom here I feel.

我觉得在信仰穆斯林时,这里确实能够有更多的自由。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I have the utmost faith in his ability to achieve this goal as a central member of our economic team."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

D-A-V-I-D Well, if I've got a five-letter word like D-A-V-I-D, well, that's like five bytes and yet we only have the ability thus far in this class to return one thing at a time I can't return five bytes to you, but wait a minute, those bytes by nature of a computer are just stored in RAM.

好的，如果有5个字母的单词，如，那是5个字节,我们只能返回一个东西,而不能返回5个字节，等一下，这些字节被计算机本能地,存储在内存中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Second,it attracts attention and shows the groups have the ability to attack a major power station.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

But I imagine that after a period, there'd be this-- Well, humans have this ability to look down on their experiences, or step back from their experiences, and assess them.

但我想经过一段时间后-,人类有能力审视自己的体验，或从体验中抽身而出加以评估。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"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

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

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

But, I think there will be great opportunities ahead for you and the ability for Wall Street to again securitize and buy a lot of these companies If you have capital, you'll be able to buy these bonds.

但是，我认为在你们未来的道路上将会有很多的机会,华尔街也将会有能力再次保障,或购买很多这样的公司的,如果你有资金的话，你就可以买这些债券。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Widespread fraud marred the August 20 presidential election, and international observers have voiced concern about the country's ability to hold a new election in such a short amount of time.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

I've added the ability to have more complex data structures here. But I dropped a hint in the first lecture about what you could computer with things. In fact if you think for a second about that list, you could ask what can I compute with just that set of constructs?

我添加了使用更复杂的数据结构的能力,但是我在第一节课给大家了了一个,关于你可以用什么来做计算的暗示,实际上如果你思考,这个列表一会儿的话,你会问我可以用？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"And I would say the same thing . They will give us a financial ability to accelerate the process, to bring on more jobs, to have capabilities brought in from additional partners."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

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

"This is a victory because we have affirmed that the ability to live a healthy life in our great country is a right and not merely a privilege for the select few,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

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

"As our assessment determines that we have a gap between the demand on the ground and our ability to deliver, obviously we then adjust the priority on delivery of supplies coming into the theater.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

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

He says what South Korea and its allies have a problem with is the North's ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction at a long range, regardless of what is mounted on top of this particular rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

As I said, we've been considering different kinds of arguments for the existence of a soul, each of which appeals to some feature about us-- our creativity, our ability to feel, the fact that we have a qualitative aspect of experience, our ability to reason-- what have you.

我说过,我们考察了各种各样,证明灵魂存在的论证,每一种都诉诸我们的某种特性,我们的创造性,我们的感知能力,当然还有我们定性方面的经验,我们推理的能力,诸如此类的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Foreign Secretary Miliband says for Britain,the new government in Kabul must be credible and it must have a clear view of Afghanistan's future regarding its security, its ability to achieve political reconciliation and its ability to build its economy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Unsurprisingly, you've got the ability to do decent work in this class and most of you have the ability to do good work, and some of you have, a fair chunk of you have, the ability to do excellent work, though it may take some work on your part to get to that point.

不奇怪，你已经有能力去做极好的作业,并且大多人有能力做好作业，一些人有，是大部分人有，有能力去做极好的作业，尽管这需要花费一些功夫才能做到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选