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潜在
Potential
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
他说，这有可能成为第一个宽带杀手应用程序，它已经成为事实，因为它显然是如此的带宽密集。我的意思是，这一直是个问题。
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
根据我们对现代遗传学的了解，我们认识到，上帝在创造亚当和夏娃的基因时，就有可能将所有人的潜能植入他们的基因中。
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我就有一种本能的渴望去扩展和成长。对我来说，一个优秀的人的功能和责任是真诚和诚实地开发一个人的潜力。
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
一个人唯一的竞争对手是他自己的潜力。一个人唯一的失败就是没能实现自己的可能性。从这个意义上说，每个人都可以成为国王，因此必须像国王一样被对待。
We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.
我们是一个有巨大潜力的国家。我们有政治意愿以公正和公平的方式进行深刻变革，使我国重新走上发展道路，迎接新世界的挑战。
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
我出生在战后一个经济紧缩的中下层家庭，家里没有一个人在艺术方面有任何建树，也没有一个人能成为一个崭露头角的作家的潜在导师，但我却成了这样的人。
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
为了最大限度地利用我们的潜力来增进我们的健康和知识，我们应该对新的理解和不断发展的技术或资源保持开放的态度，这些技术或资源可能会促使我们改变处理这些重要问题的方法。
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
我们努力确保每个孩子都有机会，其本质必须是确保每个孩子都有平等的机会，不是要变得平等，而是要变得不同——实现他或她所拥有的任何独特的身体、心灵和精神潜能。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
这就是我喜欢喜剧小品的原因:一个小品只有五分钟，然后它就变黑了，还有其他可能性。
In every ending, there is a beginning. In every mistake, a lesson. And so, in every moment and every one, endless potential.
每个结局都有一个开始。在每一个错误中，都有一个教训。所以，在每一个时刻，每一个人，都有无限的潜力。
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
成功在于成功，而不在于有成功的潜力。任何一块宽阔的土地都有可能成为宫殿的所在地，但在它建成之前没有宫殿。
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
我不认为任何球员能发挥他的潜力，因为人们把你看得那么高，你永远不会像他们期望的那么好。
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
一旦你能像个傻瓜一样接受它，它就会打开你的潜力。
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
孩子们可能天生就有潜力，但如果没有鼓励——甚至是推动——我认为它永远不会实现。