Ability
[ə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [ə'bɪləti]
解释:
(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'.
贝丝录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
丹尼校对
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Power (to execute any thing), ableness, force, potency, might, efficiency, efficacy, strength, energy, skill, skilfulness, dexterity, address, cleverness, ingenuity, talent, aptitude, aptness, knack, expertness, facility, quickness, readiness.[2]. Qualification, competency, sufficiency.[3]. Capacity, capability, capableness, faculty, gift, parts, genius, endowment, calibre, forte, turn.
贝琪校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Power, cleverness, faculty, skill, capacity, talent, expertness, aptitude,dexterity, efficiency, competency, qualification
ANT:Weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness
阿方斯校对
解释:
n. quality of being able: power: strength: skill.—n.pl. Abil′ities the powers of the mind.
海伦娜编辑
娱乐性解释:
n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps however this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
整理:罗拉
例句:
- 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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