During that time, Branch Rickey tested Robinson's ability to deal with racial pressure he would face in the major league.

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

Their eyes are intact but rather what happens in agnosia is they lose the ability to recognize certain things.

他们的眼睛并未受到损伤,相反,失认症的症状是,患者失去识别某些事物的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mister Schroeder believes the enzymes could be changed in some plants to increase their ability to store water.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

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

The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

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

But Roberto Clemente was loved not only for his ability in sports, but also for the kind of person that he was.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At his ninety-fifth birthday party in March, Norman Borlaug told VOA that he was worried about the world's ability to feed itself.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Physiologists ran tests, showing, proving scientifically the limit of human ability was running the mile in 4 minutes.

生理学家进行实验，在科学上展示证明人类能力极限,是四分钟跑一英里。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Their combined observing power gives the Very Long Baseline Array the ability to see the finest details of any telescope in the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

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

The other was the vaccine's ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

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

Alfred Mutua says every child in Kenya has the ability to get the same education.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

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

Boas recognized Hurston's storytelling ability and deep interest in the black culture of the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This,scientists say, can affect the ability to taste meat and other foods high in protein.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

On the other hand, these voices spoke of a faith born in that suffering which open them up to the presence of God and the ability to place their suffering into the context of Christ suffering.

但另一方面，这些声音也表明信仰的存在,它从苦难中诞生，使受苦的人们,向上帝敞开心扉,使其能够将自己所受的苦,与上帝所受之苦联系起来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They also can interfere with mental ability,make muscles weak and cause pain in the head.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

The fact that I have one, you know, five hundred thousandth of the vote for one representative in congress is not the same thing as my having the ability to decide for myself how to use my property rights.

事实是，我只有一张选票，50万选民才票选出,一位国会议员,这与我能自己决定如何行使我的财产权,是两回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Most of his friends believed the shock of losing all his money had taken away his ability to reason and to live in the real world.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

So, the mind gets destroyed when the ability of the body to function in that way has been destroyed.

所以,心灵也就伴随着身体,正常运作能力的毁灭而毁灭

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It measures the ability of people to communicate in the workplace using everyday English.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Second skill we want you to have at the end of this course is the ability to use a vocabulary of computational tools in order to be able to understand programs written by others.

我们想让你们在课程结束时,掌握的第二个技能,是有能力使用计算工具的语言,用来理解,别人编写的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Republican Senator John McCain, the party's presidential candidate in two thousand eight, praised him for his ability to reach across party lines to pass important legislation.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

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

In fact, doctors proved the 4 minutes for the mile was the limit of human ability.

事实上医生证明四分钟跑一英里,是人类能力的极限。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选