If you're talented, you have a natural ability to do something well.

有天赋的人能自然而然地把某件事情做好。

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How many of us go through life like the elephants—believing that it was beyond our ability to do something only because we failed once or some times before?

我们中有多少人过着像大象一样的生活——仅仅因为之前失败过一次或几次，就认为自己的能力无法完成某件事？

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Or losing the ability to do something.

或失去做一些事情的能力。

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Or losing the ability to do something.

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Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

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Well, a smile is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to do something.

笑就是我们表达,肉体某项能力的一种方式

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Neither you nor I have the luxury of backing away from this problem, because we know better and we have the ability to try to do something about it.

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In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

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"If there is a crazy attack, we now have the ability to see it and do something about it, " he says.

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