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

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

It has capacities to make things happen in the world that he doesn't know how to control.

在理查还手足无措时,语言有能力改变一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But talk of the mind is just a way of talking about these abilities that the body has when it's functioning properly.

但是心灵,仅仅是在肉体还能正常工作时,对这些精神能力的一种表述

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We don't have an enormous difficulty grasping them, and it doesn't seem to me that our capability of grasping irony is founded on a necessary, underlying agreement.

我们在理解时不会用很大困难，而且我认为，我们理解讽刺的能力,是建立在必要的，潜在的共识之上的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When you understand a sentence I said you have to have the capacity to understand a sentence even if you've never heard it before.

当你在理解我所说的一句话时,你必须要拥有理解这句话的能力,即使你在之前从未听到过这句话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, our bodies are capable of making antibodies that are tuned for all the potential antigens that we come into contact with, That's amazing that we have this capacity to respond and you respond only when needed.

所以 我们的身体具有制造抗体的能力,这些抗体对于各种潜在抗原具有特异性,我们具有只在需要时做出,免疫反应的能力 这太让人惊叹了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The thought would be, when the soul and the body have been separated-- such the dualist explains-- the soul has lost its ability to give commands to the body.

也就是说,当灵魂与肉体分离时,以二元论的解释,灵魂就丧失了对肉体的控制能力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So I think, at least when there's the need to be careful-- maybe we don't normally have a need to be careful-- but when there's the need to be careful, we should say, talk of the mind is a way of talking about the P-functioning of the body.

所以我认为,至少在需要严谨的时候,也许我们并不常需要如此严谨,但是当我们需要谨慎时,我们应该会说,心灵是表达,肉体人类能力的一种方式

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选