"So when you destroy an individual's ability to communicate, you have really destroyed one of the most important aspects that we have as a species."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

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

Unsurprisingly, you've got the ability to do decent work in this class and most of you have the ability to do good work, and some of you have, a fair chunk of you have, the ability to do excellent work, though it may take some work on your part to get to that point.

不奇怪，你已经有能力去做极好的作业,并且大多人有能力做好作业，一些人有，是大部分人有，有能力去做极好的作业，尽管这需要花费一些功夫才能做到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And then, finally, the last tactical skill that you're going to get out of this course is you're going to have the ability to map scientific problems into a computational frame.

接下来，你们将带着走出这个课堂的,最后一个技能是,你们将学会,把科学问题,转换进计算机的框架之内。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But you do have the ability to affect public policy to an extent that it will be sensitive to the needs and issues of Muslims face.

不过你却有能力,在一定程度上影响国家政策,使其对穆斯林的需求与问题更加敏感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You start--Your human capital is your ability to do things and your knowledge, which is what you have to sell in the marketplace.

人力资本就是,你做事的能力以及你的知识，这些是你在人才市场上的资本。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You do have the ability to practice with a lot more freedom here I feel.

我觉得在信仰穆斯林时,这里确实能够有更多的自由。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But, I think there will be great opportunities ahead for you and the ability for Wall Street to again securitize and buy a lot of these companies If you have capital, you'll be able to buy these bonds.

但是，我认为在你们未来的道路上将会有很多的机会,华尔街也将会有能力再次保障,或购买很多这样的公司的,如果你有资金的话，你就可以买这些债券。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.

所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选