And our students are probably more cognitive than many young people in our society at this point and they think deeply.

在这个时代，我们的学生大概,比社会上的许多其他年轻人,更具备认知能力，他们思想深刻。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton, who is writing at the present moment of December of 1629, is claiming the capacity to arrive at a moment in history that he has already described as a long-completed one.

这首诗作于1629年12月，这时弥尔顿正在慢慢具备他达到历史性时刻的能力,而这时他也已经被这样称赞着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Computers smart though they may be and intimidating though they may be, they cannot yet think for themselves.

计算机可能是智能的,也可能是可怕的，但计算机还不具备自我思考的能力。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's harder than you think, right, but that's the kind of thing that musicians, particularly percussion players, have to be able to execute.

比你想的要困难得多,但这就是音乐家,尤其是打击乐手所必须具备的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, if you can't immediately know, and you don't all have periodic tables in front of you, so that's fine, but if you have a periodic table in front of you, you need to be able to count valence electrons, so work on that if it doesn't come naturally to you in terms of figuring that out.

如果你不能马上想到，而且你手上没有周期表，那还好，但如果你面前有一张周期表，那你就得具备从中查出价电子个数的能力，如果你不能自然而然地想到,请在这方面多下点功夫。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Descartes, when he was alive, was reasonable enough concluding that physical objects cannot do certain things.

笛卡尔生前非常理性地总结到,生理客体并不具备完成某些动作的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom ? and others seem to lack it?

为何有些人,会拥有这种理性自控的能力,那也是自由的必备条件,但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The last hundred years, in the U.S., don't really have that much predictive power.

在接下来的上百年时间里，在美国，我们并不具备那么强大的预测能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Just think of them as the set of abilities that people have, the things that we can do that other physical objects-- chalk, radios, cars-- those things can't do.

只是把它们视为人具备的能力,作为人有别于粉笔,收音机,汽车等其他物体的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Most people with autism do not have any exceptional abilities that go along with it.

大多数孤独症患者并不具备,由孤独症所带来的任何特殊能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

No machine could do this because our capacity for language is unbounded and free.

机器并不具备语言能力,因为我们的语言能力,是不受控制的,是自由的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But feeling, that's the sort of thing no machine could do.

但是感觉能力,却是任何机器都不具备的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选