ability

英[əˈbɪləti]美[əˈbɪləti]

n.能力，才能；

复数：abilities;

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If he can combine his ability with hard work, he should be very successful.如果他能把自己的才能和勤奋结合起来, 必定会很有成就。

I have no doubts as to your ability.关于你的能力我毫不怀疑。

It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifling matters.真可惜,像他这样有才能的人竟然被用来干这类琐事。

He has the ability to organise.他很有组织才能。

She is a woman of proven ability.她已被证明是个有能力的人。

Tiredness can seriously impair your ability to drive.疲劳会大大影响你的驾驶能力。

His ability came through after he began to work.他参加工作后, 开始表现出他的能力。

an uncanny ability to foresee the future预见未来的神奇本领

She showed a touching faith in my ability to resolve any and every difficulty.她相信我有能力解决任何困难，这令人感动。

His speedy promotion is from sheer ability.他全凭才干而被迅速提拔。

英语六级真题

It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

Developing independent and creative thinking abilities.

The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

It trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.

It cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants'chool papers to assess their writing ability

In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability

Developing students' ability to apply what they learn.

The aim is to ensure that employees have an explicit tool to help them understand their own abilities and aspirations, determine career possibilities, and set (usually short-ter goals.

help employees make the best use of their abilities to achieve their career goals

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

What we want to encourage in these students is an active intellectual experience, in which they develop the wide range of complex reasoning abilities required of good lawyers.

Professor Robert Summers at Cornell Law School banned laptop computers from his thinks qualified lawyers need to possess a broad array of complex reasoning abilities

exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

To be good leaders, managers must pay close attention to their own values, abilities and strengths.

But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students.

The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job

At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities.

They want to know if the economic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal we signed last November.

Their ability to deal with financial problems

It destroys the patient's ability to think.

You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team.

A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

Its result helps understand babies' language ability.

A 2016 study found that users had a "consistently positive attitude" about the giraff robot's ability to enhance communication and decrease feelings of loneliness.

A robot's appearance affects its ability to successfully interact with humans, which is why the riKEN-Tri Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research decided to develop a robotic nurse that looks like a huge teddy bear.

But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

However, they're more cautious about sharing information with nonmembers, as the organization guards against others developing the ability to hiJack and take control of their satellites.

I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

So we evolve the ability to sweat plentifully and lost most of our fur.

Some experts even consider lying a developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires sophisticated planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else5 s perspective to manipulate them.

Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

The ability to work well with others and collaborate on projects is a sought-after ability in nearly every position.

The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

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

We have the ability to connect seemingly different threads to solve problems we've never seen before.

When Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought chronically sleep-restricted people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed improvements in the ability of insulin to process

with such progress, Google's cars will easily surpass my own driving ability later this year.

Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-SING

能力

Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.

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N-VAR

才能;技能;本领

Your ability is the quality or skill that you have which makes it possible for you to do something.

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PHRASE

尽…所能地；竭尽全力地

If you do something to the best of your abilities or to the best of your ability, you do it as well as you can.

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英汉词典释义

n.

能力; 力量

智慧, 才智; 天资, 才能, 本领

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

2. possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done;

行业词典

心理学： 能力；

法律： 能力；