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

What is literacy? Literacy is more than the ability to read and write and some of your competition skills.

何为文化素养？,文化素养远远不止一个人的读写能力,以及一个人的某些竞争技能。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And I don't know, just like the ability to use what's around you.

运用你拥有的所有表达能力，

教英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

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

Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

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

Experts say the ability to take up lead is reduced when the pH level is above six and a half.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

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

It found that their lack of complex products like futures and derivatives limits the ability to spread risk.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.

而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She was an insecure person. She did not think she had the ability to do an important job.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

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

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

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

Last month, American scientists began work on a project aimed at improving the ability to predict tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The analogy to explain this is think about the ability to enjoy food.

解释这一点的一个例子是,享受美食的能力。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Other symptoms include a loss of the ability to move normally or a loss of balance.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

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

Stem cells have the ability to grow other cells, such as heart, nerve or brain cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But I think the reasons we did it then were, yes, liquidity, really, more capital for the company, but also the ability to attract people.

戴尔上市的原因,首先是流动性，筹得更多资金，同时也为了吸引注意。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.23

It requires the ability to learn how to learn.

这就需要我们学会如何进行学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、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

But what it is quite clear is that it left the hands of government the ability to pick winners and losers and that is a very dangerous power.

但显而易见的是,政府有生杀大权,掌握公司的命运,这是非常危险的权。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Now these were important changes because humans of course can-- are omnivores and can eat both plants and animals, and therefore, the ability to secure nutrients from these different sources became very appealing to humans.

这些是很重要的变化,显然人类现在,是杂食动物,能够进食植物和动物,因为营养来源的多元化,对人类来说很重要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He had lost the ability to write and was sick most of the time.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

He introduced the concept of electronegativity which was a measure, therefore, it is quantitative, of the atom's ability to attract electrons within a covalent bond and developed a scale of electronegativity.

他引入了电负性这一概念,一个反映着原子在成共价键时吸引电子的能力的数据标度，因此这是数量上的，在共价电子中,电子原子能吸引电子,并发展为一定规模的电负性。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The first excerpt is from Numbers 14, and it shows Moses' ability to placate the wrath of God.

第一个是来自《民数记》14的片段，展示了摩西,让盛怒的上帝平静的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选