A bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength, suggests that willpower (意志力) is the ability to make decisions that are better for us in the long term, rather than in the short term.

《意志力：重新发现人类最伟大的力量》这本畅销书表明意志力是做决定的能力，从长远而非短期来看对我们更有益。

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This can hinder your ability to make decisions, speak up and gain recognition for your individual skills and strengths.

这可能会阻碍你做出决定、大声说出自己的想法，并让你的个人技能和优势得到认可。

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The ability to make decisions when needed is a must.

适时的决策力是必需的。

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One of the things we said last time was, with that set of things, the ability to give values-- sorry, to give names to values-- the ability to make decisions, the ability to loop as a function of that, the ability get things in and out, we said that that actually gave us a language we said was Turing-complete.

上次我们和以上内容一起说过，我们可以赋值--抱歉,为数值命名--可以做出判断决定-,并且据此进行循环,可以输入输出数据,我们说拥有这些功能的语言,是图灵完备的。

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Few discuss treatment preferences they would elect if they lost the ability to make decisions.

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And he clearly has the ability to make decisions and to act on them.

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Executives like to pride themselves on the ability to make decisions based upon data.

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