"This is a victory because we have affirmed that the ability to live a healthy life in our great country is a right and not merely a privilege for the select few,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

There we go. Now if I do this, an infinite number of times, we should get roughly 50/50, but now we have the ability to do things only once in awhile.

开始，如果我们，不停地按这个按钮，我们大致会有一半的机会听到猫叫，但是我们每次只有一次按按钮的机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well it turns out a bunch of years ago people just decided that if we have the ability to express numbers and we actually care about expressing letters of the alphabet, well we just need some kind of mapping between one and the other, ASCII and so thus was born what's generally called the ASCII.

结果证实，数年前,人们觉得如果我们,有数字表达能力,而我们真正在乎其实是字符的表达，那么我们就需要数字和字符的某种对应关系，于是就有了俗称的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"As our assessment determines that we have a gap between the demand on the ground and our ability to deliver, obviously we then adjust the priority on delivery of supplies coming into the theater.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

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

They should have some courage, and they should stop it. It is no good for the players, and somehow I hope the players have the ability around the world to stand up and say we are not playing on this, plain and simple."

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

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

"National security is something that is at risk. And that is why what we are trying to do is ensure that our networks our government networks, our private sector networks have the ability to withstand these attempts to hack in and to conduct activities."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

We have the students grouped according to ability, that is we have head-engine in grouping.

我们将学生分组,根据他们的能力，因此在一个小组中有不同能力的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

As I said, we've been considering different kinds of arguments for the existence of a soul, each of which appeals to some feature about us-- our creativity, our ability to feel, the fact that we have a qualitative aspect of experience, our ability to reason-- what have you.

我说过,我们考察了各种各样,证明灵魂存在的论证,每一种都诉诸我们的某种特性,我们的创造性,我们的感知能力,当然还有我们定性方面的经验,我们推理的能力,诸如此类的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so we saw that as well, the last piece we had here is the ability to create variables, which have their own values, and that's done using an assignment statement.

我们也可以看到，这里我们最后的是,创建了一些变量，这些变量都有自己的值，这是运用了赋值声明来完成的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

Well basically what we're doing is we're giving ourselves the ability to create data types the same way that we have some built-ins, so we have things like int, float, string, these are built-in data types.

就是要赋值我们自己创建,和内置的数据类型,相同的数据类型的能力,我们有一些内置的数据类型，如int，float，string等，如果你考虑下这些数据类型。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选