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能力
Ability
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
通往幸福的道路在于两条简单的原则:找到你感兴趣的，你能做好的，当你找到它的时候，把你的整个灵魂都投入其中——你所拥有的每一点能量、抱负和天生的能力。
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
你必须在那里不是为了名誉、荣誉、认可和成为历史书中的一页，而是因为你相信你的天赋和能力可以有效地应用于航天器的运行。
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
我认为接受大学教育的基础应该是学习能力，而不是人们能负担得起的东西。我认为最令人作呕的景象莫过于政客们把机会阶梯往上拉。
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
正如曾经离开家的旅行者比从未离开过自己家的人更聪明一样，对另一种文化的了解应该提高我们更坚定地审视自己的能力，更深情地欣赏自己的文化。
Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
让我们把化学家留在这里，把食物放在这里，这是我的感觉。我知道什么?但快餐的一个重要方面是它们能够人为地污染颜色、气味和其他东西来刺激食欲。
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If i believe i cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when i believe i can, then i acquire the ability to do it even if i didn't have it in the beginning.
男人常常成为他们认为自己是什么样的人。如果我认为我不能做某事，它使我不能做它。但是当我相信我能做到的时候，我就获得了做这件事的能力，即使我一开始没有这样的能力。
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。
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于，他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性，并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
融合是一个人想要自己搬进去的能力。如果有人想住在白人社区，而他是黑人，那是他的选择。这应该是他的权利。这并不是因为白人不允许他这样做。
For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
对海湾国家来说，可能没有一种饲料作物的种子供应相对丰富，其潜在价值超过天鹅绒豆。这种豆科植物在种植较晚的时候也有收获的能力。
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
内弗雷特总是有一种不可思议的能力来读懂他的思想。“她哭了吗?她甜甜地问。“然后你吻了她?”你不应该那样做。我相信你的本意是好的，但出于同情而亲吻别人永远是个错误。
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
公司需要确保他们提供有效客户服务的能力与他们的增长同步。如果你要向新客户推销你的公司，你最好能在他们与你做生意时为他们提供服务。
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
我从来没有怀疑过自己的能力，但是当你听到你的人生不如别人时，你就会怀疑其他人是否有你从未见过的东西。如果有，我还在找。
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
承担责任的能力是衡量一个人的尺度。
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
艺术并不在遥远的地方。艺术作品是一个人的整个人格、情感和能力的表现。
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
耐心是当你想要换档时让马达空转的能力。
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。
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。