A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
如果他从未当过皇帝，没有人会怀疑他的统治能力。
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
爱最大的礼物是它能使它所触及的一切变得神圣。
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
每个人都有操纵别人的能力，都有充满仇恨和欺骗的能力。
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
演艺圈的成功取决于你的交友能力。
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
我的能力是控制水分子并把它们变成冰。
Martyrdom...the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
牺牲……一个人没有能力成名的唯一途径。
When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
当我相信自己有能力做某事时，没有“不”这个词。
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
创造力是将秩序引入自然的随机性的能力。
They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
他们有独特的能力去听一个故事并理解另一个故事。
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
幸福不是没有问题，而是有能力解决问题。
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
殉道是一个人没有能力成名的唯一途径。
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
智慧是一种避免工作，同时又能完成工作的能力。
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Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
金钱可以大大增加一个人过建设性生活的能力，不仅使自己快乐，而且希望对他人有益。
Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.
通过对胎儿组织的研究，研究人员希望找到利用胚胎干细胞的方法。胚胎干细胞有能力成为任何类型的人类细胞，并能为许多疾病提供新的治疗方法。
If i could give you one thing in life, i would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.
如果我能给你生命中的一件事，我会给你通过我的眼睛看到自己的能力。只有这样，你才会意识到你对我来说是多么的特别。
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
通过匹配人们的技能、兴趣和能力，使大多数人获得最大成功的系统是自由企业。相比之下，再分配只是简单地把钱分散开来。更糟糕的是，它削弱了通过扭曲经济激励机制获得成功的能力。
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
单簧管的演奏能力是克服乐器缺陷的能力。世上没有十全十美的单簧管，过去没有，将来也不会有。
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.
在哈佛商学院，我真的觉得自己获得了解决难题的能力。但是我也觉得我和我的同学们并不是主流。例如，在求职季，每个人都要刮胡子去面试。我想，‘这太疯狂了。于是我留了胡子。