Ability

(noun.) the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment.

(noun.) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; 'danger heightened his powers of discrimination'.

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• After all, I have played my part to the best of my ability on this life's stage, but Fate has been too strong for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Then Hubbard discovered a young man in Washington who impressed him as having remarkable executive ability. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Each side had to train men in ability to study and expound the records which were relied upon. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is a volonte de pouvoir, if you like, a will to ability, taking pouvoir as a verb. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Edison, a half-brother of Edison's father, and a man of marked inventive ability. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I do not question the personal courage of General Johnston, or his ability. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To say the least, this evidenced great ability and enterprise on the part of the youth. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I trust you will not be disappointed in my administrative ability. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas, was virtually the vice-chieftain of the community, and a man of great ability as a statesman and warrior. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The same theory accounts for the esteem and regard we pay to men of extraordinary parts and abilities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I, who have valued myself on my abilities! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• His abilities, in both these respects, are generally in proportion to the extent of his stock, or to the number of people whom it can employ. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• How one person's abilities compare in quantity with those of another is none of the teacher's business. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the otherwhat was she? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She was very pretty and not, I think, deficient in natural abilities, though it is really very good of me to say so; for she could not endure me! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Have they contributed to encourage the diligence, and to improve the abilities, of the teachers? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He does not want abilities. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They would rather NOT have a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And that their money ought not to be given away without their consent, by persons at a distance, unacquainted with their circumstances and abilities. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Betsey went with alacrity, proud to shew her abilities before her fine new sister. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• My surmises did not for a moment class a man of the Count's abilities and social position with the ordinary rank and file of foreign spies. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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