A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
If you judge a fish on it's ability to climb, that fish is gonna live it's whole life thinking it is stupid.
如果你根据一条鱼的爬的能力来判断它，这条鱼会一辈子都认为它很蠢。
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
正念冥想被发现可以培养抑制那些非常快的情感冲动的能力。
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
接近权力有一种不令人惊讶的能力，能使政治家的脊髓变异成亮黄色的果冻。
Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.
科学家从不研究重要的东西。比如为什么有些动物似乎进化出了幸灾乐祸的能力。
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
语言是人们思考的方式。当你误用词语时，你就会降低清晰而真实地思考的能力。
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
事实上，有人可能会说，小说家的技巧归根结底是利用强度的能力。
When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
当我们没有能力做一件事的时候，我们能进入耶稣的能力里面，这是一件很大的喜乐。
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
没有什么比一个人日复一日地领导自己更能决定性地证明他领导他人的能力了。
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
你为自己的恶行找借口的能力让你相信整个世界和你一样不道德。
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
人类的大脑有一种非凡的能力，既能使它看到的东西打折扣，又能使现实与预期相符。
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
某些简短的句子无与伦比，因为它们能给人一种没有什么可说的感觉。
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
我的歌唱能力非常有限，但我很幸运，我可以围绕我的歌唱能力写歌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
音乐有治愈的力量。它能让人们离开自己几个小时。
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
领导能力就是一个人为了实现共同目标而团结其他个人努力的能力。归根结底，就是要照顾好你的员工，确保从上到下，每个人都觉得自己是团队的一部分。
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
我认为在我年轻的时候读莎士比亚的戏剧是非常重要的。他有能力让完全陌生的人活过来。
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
衡量智力的标准是改变的能力。
I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
我出生时大脑受到轻微损伤，我希望像我这样的人明白，他们不应该让残疾成为障碍。我想提高人们的意识——我想把我的残疾变成能力。
Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already.
技术我们可以交付能力的家长能够登录学校内部网,能够看到什么作业设置或查看规划课,孩子是否参加,看到的时间表是什么样子,这一切都是可能的,一些学校已经这样做了。