A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.
胶片相机在空间中运动的能力，而不是在空间中变焦的能力——每次我们有摄像机时，运动都是通过变焦的;每次我们有一个胶片相机，它都是一个物理运动。
English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
当然，英语是你的主要工具，但它没有写作的其他方面那么重要，例如，你必须有一些天生的能力，你不能买它，没有人把它放在那里，你生来就有它。
I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.
我认为音乐最好的部分是当它来自真实的地方并且有能力在更大的范围内连接。它不再是个人的事情，而是每个人的事情。
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
听证会很快就开始了。我有一些初步的意见，但我怀疑你对提问更感兴趣，我很乐意尽我所能回答这些问题。
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
我从来没有对运动那么有激情。但是当我在赫尔曼山学校的时候，我确实有能力扔飞盘。所以当这项运动发展起来的时候，它很有趣，因为我擅长这项运动。
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.
我坚信所有人与生俱来的创造力，以及我们与生俱来的能力——如果不被传统所蒙蔽——欣赏各种形式的真美，不管我们喜不喜欢。
As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.
作为世界上仅存的超级大国和经济强国，我国处于创新和生产前沿的能力使我国劳动力获得了空前的经济成功。
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
如果要根据每个人的体力和能力，使男女的服务达到最佳和最有用的效果，节制是必不可少的。没有什么比这更能保证我们全力以赴。
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
我认为锻炼在很多方面考验着我们，我们的技能，我们的心脏，我们在挫折后恢复的能力。这是运动和比赛的内在美，它可以为我们所有的成年运动员服务。
My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.
我妈妈得了类风湿性关节炎。我不想失去跳起来、在房间里走动的能力，也不想失去用我已经习惯了的精力四处走动的能力。这对我来说比一两个皱纹重要得多。
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
物质上的成功让你有能力专注于其他真正重要的事情。这就是能够做出改变，不仅在你自己的生活中，而且在其他人的生活中。
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
我向本委员会保证，如果我获得任命，我将严格独立于所有政治影响之外。对该机构有效运作和实现其授权目标的能力至关重要。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
最重要的自由是做真实的自己。你用现实换取了一个角色。你放弃了感觉的能力，作为交换，戴上面具。
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。
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此，通过努力来刺激局势既不合适，也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的，不安分的写作或绘画的冲动，只要吃点甜食，这种感觉就会过去。
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。
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。