A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
说到中枢神经系统，以及感觉疼痛、饥饿和口渴的能力，老鼠是猪，狗是男孩。
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
小时候，我相信我能让自己隐形。我不确定我是否能做到，但我确实有能力不被人注意到。
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
神不仅给我们真理，也给我们相信真理的能力;不仅要看新事物，而且要用新的眼光去看。
Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
医院必须为所有进门的人提供紧急治疗，无论他们的公民身份或支付能力如何。
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
思考的全部能力不仅依赖于语言……但语言本身也是理性误解的症结所在。
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
我在家上学的目的是让我的孩子们有能力成为一名成年学习者，这一技能将持续他们的余生。
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
每个人都是天才。但是如果你根据一条鱼爬树的能力来判断它，它会认为自己一生都是愚蠢的。
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
如果你有一家唱片公司相信你有足够的实力制作一张专辑，那么你最好有能力在旅途中制作这张专辑。
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.
正是这种有意识地决定他感兴趣的是什么，以及为什么感兴趣的能力，将艺术家与艺术系学生区分开来。
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
我补充说，没有教育的理性能力比没有自然能力的教育更能使人获得光荣和美德。
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
不幸的是，你的名声往往不是建立在你说到做到的能力上，而是建立在你做别人期望的能力上。
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
作家想象非自我的能力，熟悉陌生事物和迷惑熟悉事物的能力，是对他们力量的考验。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
青春是快乐的，因为它有能力看到美丽。任何拥有欣赏美的能力的人永远不会变老。
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
候选人和报道他的记者之间有一种奇怪的关系。它可能会受到一些小事的影响，比如一个称职的新闻工作人员、足够的座位、三明治和简报，以及理解最后期限的能力。
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
作为一名演员，你有一定的创作空间，但最终你总会说别人的话。我不认为我有精力、技能或能力写小说，但我喜欢写短篇小说和诗歌，因为这是我的两大爱好。
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。
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。