We were able to undercut our European rivals by 5%.

我们能以低于我们的欧洲对手5%的价格出售。

《牛津词典》

One of my most able students was rejected by another university.

我的一个最有能力的学生被另外一所大学拒绝了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

We were rather hoping you'd be able to do it by Friday.

我们希望你最好能在星期五之前做这件事。

《牛津词典》

You might not like an orange by itself, you might not like a banana by itself, but if you combine different fruits together, you might be able to actually produce something which is consumable by the whole society."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

We saw that the Bohr model was able to correlate the observations of Angstrom, which had been formulated by Balmer.

知道了波尔模型,可以和阿姆斯特朗的观察相吻合，这观察后来被巴尔末推导出来相证实。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Milton is able in this speech to combine, I think, for the first time the two associations borne by that Latin word pastor.

弥尔顿能够在这场演说中，第一次把拉丁语牧师的两种联想结合起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The proposal for a financial transaction tax was always separately veto-able by Britain.

BBC: Europe - the coalition shakes

In Manhattan, for example, cable TV viewers were able by mid-afternoon to tune back in to their favorite soap operas on WABC.

CNN: McCain speaks out on Time Warner-ABC flap

The "Take pictures remotely" option is supposedly toggle-able by just sliding a switch while in the mode that we just spoke of.

ENGADGET: Nikon WU-1a wireless mobile adapter for D3200 review: using Android as a remote trigger / wireless display