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

and I really liked, you know, the material and I felt like I had the natural ability for it,

我很喜欢课堂上接触到的那些会计知识，而且我感觉我在这方面有天赋。

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And more importantly, we like people who have the desire and ability to learn quickly.

更重要的是，有求知欲，并且有快速学习的能力。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

D-A-V-I-D Well, if I've got a five-letter word like D-A-V-I-D, well, that's like five bytes and yet we only have the ability thus far in this class to return one thing at a time I can't return five bytes to you, but wait a minute, those bytes by nature of a computer are just stored in RAM.

好的，如果有5个字母的单词，如，那是5个字节,我们只能返回一个东西,而不能返回5个字节，等一下，这些字节被计算机本能地,存储在内存中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If we were recreating an ability to provide some part of what we do, or what we'd like to do, how would we do it?

如果我们再创造一种能力,做我们在做的事，或我们想做的事，怎么办？

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

just to be out like, leagues ahead of everybody else in terms of like brain ability.

就聪明才智来讲，任何人都无法和他相比。

知道约翰·纳什吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I think it's very hard to raise the definition of accredited investors because the minute you do that you're closing large numbers of people out from their ability to invest in hedge funds and they don't like that; they feel insulted, so there was a lot of angry reaction.

我认为要提高,合资格投资者的门槛很难,因为一旦实施,大量的投资者将被拒之门外,这些有能力投资对冲基金的人们,可不会开心,他们会觉得被侮辱了并因此而恼怒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

We'll start with Week 2 talking about Genetic Engineering; what's DNA, how can it be manipulated, how is our ability to manipulate DNA led to things like gene therapy which can now be done in people.

从第二周开始我们会讲基因工程,什么是DNA,怎么样才能操控它们,我们如何操作DNA,并将它应用于人类的基因疗法

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选