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

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

The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight, members of the same polis or city.

求知的能力,是我们透过双眼辨别，同一城邦或城市成员的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now that you have the ability to ask yes or no questions, you wanna be able to branch or fork in the road based on those answers.

你现在能问一些肯定或者否定的问题，根据结果,你就能进行选择了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

they got to have some technical ability or they can be artist at all.

他们必须有某些技巧能力,否则他们不可能成为艺术家。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

You might say--or a good part of-- it is our ability to process information.

你们可能都会说，或者大部分人会说-,因为我们有处理信息的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Their reading ability is at level one or two.

都存在文化素养问题，他们的读写能力很低。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But I imagine that after a period, there'd be this-- Well, humans have this ability to look down on their experiences, or step back from their experiences, and assess them.

但我想经过一段时间后-,人类有能力审视自己的体验，或从体验中抽身而出加以评估。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well that counts on your ability to accurately assess what people are eating, or what the whole population is eating, and so measuring population intake is incredibly important to dietary recommendations.

要想准确评估人们在吃什么,或者整个,人类在吃什么,这只能依靠你的能力,所以统计总体摄入量,对饮食方面的建议非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And if parts of these brains--if parts -if these parts of the brain are damaged you get language deficits or aphasias where you might lose the ability to understand or create language.

如果这些脑区,如果这些脑区受到损伤,那就会患上各种语言障碍或失语症,就是说可能会失去理解或创造语言的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is a way of introducing cytotoxicity or cell killing ability into a cell, and that's been used to treat many kinds of cancers, particularly cancers of the brain.

这种方法常用来导入细胞毒素,或者赋予细胞杀伤其他细胞的能力,以治疗多种癌症,特别是脑癌

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选