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能力
Ability
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
嗯，如果讲故事很重要，那么你的叙述能力，或者说你把别人说的话用文字表达的能力，也很重要。
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
永远不要让生活阻碍你实现梦想的能力。深挖你的梦想，深挖你自己，相信任何事情都是可能的，并让它发生。
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
教育署的目标，是透过提供有用的职位描述，以及厘清所需具备的资格，协助学校提高招聘合适人才的能力。
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
有能力约束自己，在短期内推迟满足感，以便在长期内获得更大的回报，这是成功不可或缺的先决条件。
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
在我的家庭里，在没有电视的日子里，我们喜欢在晚上把自己弄得很痛苦，仅仅因为我们有能力恶毒地说这种语言。
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
你必须敞开心扉。我喜欢用一种深刻的方式表达自己的能力。它是最接近人类的音乐——它就像一种从文化中崛起的民间音乐。
I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.
我对任何事情都不太认真。我相信你必须尽情享受才能发挥你的能力。我既能接受批评，也能接受赞扬。既不影响我。
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
能力超越语言。领导者有能力说出来，计划好，以一种让别人知道你知道怎么做的方式去做，并且知道他们想要跟随你。
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
我认为使我们成为人类的是人与人之间的相互联系。这是我们形成和维持关系的能力。它是我们自称为人类的晴雨表。
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
公众已经对社会保障和医疗保险为老年人提供养老的能力失去了信心。他们对银行体系和传统医疗保险失去了信心。
In those days it was pretty cut and dry. 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.
在那些日子里，这是相当枯燥无味的。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。
I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.
我一直很欣赏和尊重一个人能够坦然面对别人的不适，或者，你知道，他们的坦然让别人感到不舒服。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
我们国家和世界的希望在于我们创新和技术进步的能力。
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。
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
你必须对自己的能力有信心，然后足够坚强地坚持到底。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
生活得好是一门可以发展的艺术:热爱生活，能够从微小的奉献中获得巨大的快乐，确信这个世界不欠你任何东西，而每一件礼物都确实是一件礼物。
I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
我对我和热火队的新协议感到非常兴奋。这份合同让我能够解决我的家庭所有的长期财务目标，同时也让热火队有能力获得那些我们需要的球员来赢得总冠军。