His outstanding ability earned him a place on the team.

他非凡的能力为他在队中赢得了一席之地。

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What criteria are used for assessing a student's ability?

用什么标准来评定一个学生的能力？

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A woman of her ability will easily find a job.

有她那样才能的女性找工作不难。

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He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

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Many of us would find that was, as I say, a burden-- something hanging constantly over us interfering with our ability to enjoy life.

我们许多人都会发现那是，像我说的那样，一种负担-,它一直笼罩着我们,影响着我们享受生活的能力。

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But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

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They do not have special lessons as such but meet once a month after school - rising to once a week in their third year - to learn study skills and take on extra work they would not be able to do in a whole-ability class, a recent example being chromatography in chemistry.

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Banding involves an admissions test, with results divided into ability bands - the school then accepts a percentage of pupils from each band, resulting in a mixed-ability intake.

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The country was tired of polarization, and Mitt could provide a problem-solving antidote, a demonstrated ability to bring a Republican solution -- the individual mandate -- to a problem that Democrats traditionally cared most about.

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