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

The key thing to notice is, I now have the ability to create iterations, which extends well I can do.

要注意的关键点是，我们现在已经学会如何去创建迭代了，这大大扩展了我们能做的事情的范围。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

These are things that Apple has chosen to do that I think hamper its ability to have the impact that it really could have otherwise."

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

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

"National security is something that is at risk. And that is why what we are trying to do is ensure that our networks our government networks, our private sector networks have the ability to withstand these attempts to hack in and to conduct activities."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

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

You start--Your human capital is your ability to do things and your knowledge, which is what you have to sell in the marketplace.

人力资本就是,你做事的能力以及你的知识，这些是你在人才市场上的资本。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.

所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选