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

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

he would answer that he did not have the ability.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

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

"At the end of the day, the investment bankers and the financial engineers still have the ability to go out and create products that nobody understands."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

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

They should have some courage, and they should stop it. It is no good for the players, and somehow I hope the players have the ability around the world to stand up and say we are not playing on this, plain and simple."

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

And more importantly, we like people who have the desire and ability to learn quickly.

更重要的是，有求知欲，并且有快速学习的能力。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

"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

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

Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

We have the students grouped according to ability, that is we have head-engine in grouping.

我们将学生分组,根据他们的能力，因此在一个小组中有不同能力的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But unlike Superman and Wonder Woman, Unemployed Man's friends have no superpowers other than the ability to face reality.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

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

Studies have shown it can reduce the body's ability to fight disease and lead to serious health problems.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Now that you have the ability to ask yes or no questions, you wanna be able to branch or fork in the road based on those answers.

你现在能问一些肯定或者否定的问题，根据结果,你就能进行选择了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Parents also worry about the effects that personal information or pictures can have on the child's ability to get jobs or go to college.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

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

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

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

Ms.Gardiner believes this ability may have helped the development of hammerhead sharks over the ages.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

So that's the second thing I've just highlighted here, is that I now have the ability to check whether it does the right thing.

你知道的，一个虚数,但是返回虚数就没有什么价值了,那么这是我想要强调的第二件事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选