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

Electron affinity is actually the ability of an atom, or we could also talk about an ion to gain electrons.

电子亲和能其实就是一个原子，或者我们也可以讨论离子获取电子的能力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

So, some sort of ability to record information and make generalizations is absolutely essential to making it through life.

所以记录信息的能力,和归纳的能力是非常重要的,是我们生存的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Socrates is not harmless because of his own professed ability to attract followers, a few today, a few more tomorrow.

苏格拉底并非无害,因为他擅长吸引信徒的能耐,今天几个，明天再几个。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

I should just say that the data i just gave you is real data but it's actually mixed ability data.

我强调一点我给你们的数据是真实数据,但是它是综合了各种能力后的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Talk of smiles is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to smile, to form a smile.

我们会谈到笑只是为了表达,肉体具有笑的能力,能够微笑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

Having that ability to close off a chapter and move on is really, really important.

结束一个章节,并且继续向前的能力非常重要。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

not just our imagination-- they stretch our ability to understand when and where change is possible.

不只延伸了我们的想象，还让我们能理解,怎样的时间和地点，有可能产生变化。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So far our ability to de-differentiate cells or find out how to do that is limited.

迄今为止,我们令细胞去分化的能力,和技术方法还相当有限

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

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