A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
岛上的反种族隔离囚犯，就像各个时代和国家的许多人一样，发现莎士比亚有一种特殊的能力来缓和他们的处境。他们过去常常偷偷地聚在一起看戏;有一次，这本书被分发给每个人，让他们写下自己最喜欢的台词。
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
我爱罗森伯格。我喜欢他在视觉历史上创造了一个转折点，他重新定义了美的概念，他把绘画、雕塑、摄影和日常生活与这样的苦味结合在一起，用他自己的话说，他感兴趣的是“将失败视为进步的能力”。
One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
多年来，喜剧带给我的一件事就是，我有一种很好的能力来嘲笑自己，不把无关紧要的事情看得太严肃。我不再觉得这有什么冒犯我的地方了，我真的很感激，因为我觉得我是一个非常紧张的孩子。
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
父亲的鼓励让我走到今天，因为当我长大后，我想成为像他一样的人，我知道我有能力成为一名运动员。成为一名奥运选手是最伟大的事情之一，而成为一名奥运金牌得主是世界上最负盛名的头衔之一。
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
我们在世俗上的成功并不能得到保证，但是我们获得属灵成功的能力完全取决于我们自己，这要感谢上帝的恩典。我所知道的最好的建议是给予那些世俗的东西你最好的，但绝不是你的全部——把最终的希望留给唯一能实现它的人。
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
因为你想要有竞争来压低价格。你想要创新。你有能力让人们同意有一个公共计划是值得的。你可以让私人保险公司为这些人提供保险，但如果不让这些人在市场上发挥杠杆作用，你就无法做到这一点。
Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
热门话题帮助推特成为一个更相关的指标，衡量世界在任何特定时刻所谈论的话题。谷歌已经在这个领域工作多年，最著名的是谷歌趋势和热门搜索，但谷歌+为搜索巨头提供了实时查看真正趋势的能力。
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
我讨厌初稿，而且从来没有变得容易过。人们总是想知道他们想拥有什么样的超级英雄能力。我希望有人能打开我的大脑，拿出整个初稿放在我面前，这样我就能专注于第二稿、第三稿和第四稿。
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。
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。
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
当我和别人争论的时候，即使是和我不是很亲密的人，我晚上也睡不着觉。这是可怕的。但我仍然设法坦率地说出来，因为我也有阅读别人的天赋。我能感觉到他们什么时候开始生我的气，然后，我就会转移注意力。
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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。
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
我所知道的最令人鼓舞的事实莫过于人类通过有意识的努力来提高自己的生活水平的无可置疑的能力。
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。
Everyone has the ability to hurt; it's the choice that matters.
每个人都有伤害别人的能力;重要的是选择。
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。