首页英语词典abilityability的意思

ability

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近义词power talent aptitude capacity efficiency skill

反义词

n. 能力，能耐；才能

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复数: abilities;

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ability 能力

来自able的名词形式。

英英释意

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

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

英文词源

ability (n.): late 14c., from Old French ableté "expert at handling (something)," from Latin habilitatem (nominative habilitas) "aptitude," noun of quality from habilis "easy to manage, handy" (see able). One case where a Latin silent -h- failed to make a return in English (despite efforts of 16c.-17c. scholars); see H.

同义词辨析

ability, capacity, capability, genius, talent, competence, faculty, gift, aptitude

这些名词均可表示人的"能力，才能"之意。

ability：普通用词，指人先天的或学来的各种能力。

capacity：侧重指人的潜在能力，通常不指体力，多指才智，尤指接受与领悟能力。

capability：多用于人，指胜任某项具体工作的能力，也指本身具有、尚未发挥的潜在能力。常与of或for连用。

genius：语气最强，指天赋的高度才能与智力。

talent：着重指人某方面具有可发展和培养的突出天赋才能，但语意比genius弱。

competence：正式用词，侧重指令人满意的业务能力与水平，达到胜任某项工作等的要求。

faculty：指特殊的才能或智力。

gift：着重个人的天赋的才能或在某方面的显著本领，常暗含不能用一般规律作解释的意味。

aptitude：多指先天或后天习得的运用自如的能力，常暗示接受能力强，能迅速掌握一种学术训练或艺术技巧。

考试真题

While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

Their flexibility determines one's abilities.

They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

They can affect a person's ability to get a job and qualification for benefits.

Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

The ability to quickly thumb through pages is also lost.

The ability to draw upon every available tool and insight—picked up from science, arts, and technology—to solve the problems of the future, and take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves, will be helpful to them and the United States

The importance of non-financial firms will accordingly rise, along with their ability to attract the best talent.

I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don't is their ability to stay motivated

But in recent years the capital's culinary (烹饪的) scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to please the tastes of any international visitor.

The ability to sleep in one chunk (整块时间) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego

A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground.

A good playground helps kids develop their physical abilities.

Any research that suggests that abilities to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial

Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.

Its ability to ward off disasters is incredible

An increasingly important skill will be your ability to deal with change and even welcome it.

Analytical skills are our ability to understand and solve problems using Information we have available.

As a result, they will help improve your ability to think.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

But because it's all digital it eliminates the used book market and eliminates any sharing and because homework and tests are through an access code, it eliminates any ability to opt out.

If the law isn't there, people will drive within their ability range.

If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate your thoughts, they should be a breeze.

mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

She was designed to slowly improve her ability to handle conversations, but some people were teaching Taylor racist ideas.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walk ability and transit oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successfu

The team found that exerciser educed the speed of rapid eye movements by about 8%, preventing their ability to capture new visual information.

Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

This gives rats the ability to detect slight smells.

This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

What kind of ability do analytical skills refer to in the passage?

It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

Developing independent and creative thinking abilities.

The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

It trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.

It cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants'chool papers to assess their writing ability

In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability

Developing students' ability to apply what they learn.

The aim is to ensure that employees have an explicit tool to help them understand their own abilities and aspirations, determine career possibilities, and set (usually short-ter goals.

help employees make the best use of their abilities to achieve their career goals

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

What we want to encourage in these students is an active intellectual experience, in which they develop the wide range of complex reasoning abilities required of good lawyers.

Professor Robert Summers at Cornell Law School banned laptop computers from his thinks qualified lawyers need to possess a broad array of complex reasoning abilities

exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

To be good leaders, managers must pay close attention to their own values, abilities and strengths.

But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students.

The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job

At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities.

They want to know if the economic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal we signed last November.

Their ability to deal with financial problems

It destroys the patient's ability to think.

You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team.

A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

Its result helps understand babies' language ability.

A 2016 study found that users had a "consistently positive attitude" about the giraff robot's ability to enhance communication and decrease feelings of loneliness.

A robot's appearance affects its ability to successfully interact with humans, which is why the riKEN-Tri Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research decided to develop a robotic nurse that looks like a huge teddy bear.

But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

However, they're more cautious about sharing information with nonmembers, as the organization guards against others developing the ability to hiJack and take control of their satellites.

I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

So we evolve the ability to sweat plentifully and lost most of our fur.

Some experts even consider lying a developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires sophisticated planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else5 s perspective to manipulate them.

Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

The ability to work well with others and collaborate on projects is a sought-after ability in nearly every position.

The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

This can hinder your ability to make decisions, speak up and gain recognition for your individual skills and strengths.

We have the ability to connect seemingly different threads to solve problems we've never seen before.

When Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought chronically sleep-restricted people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed improvements in the ability of insulin to process

with such progress, Google's cars will easily surpass my own driving ability later this year.

Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

Her eagerness to develop her reading ability.

His son had the ability to fix it.

I found out that I have no artistic ability at all, and now I know for sure that I do not want to be an artist.

I had to change my attitude about their ability and potential.

I was able to try new activities and test my ability.

If there is truly a concern about a professor's professionalism or ability, be sure to use online course evaluations to calmly offer your comments.

In addition to their simple beauty, what makes the adobe dwellings admirable is their ability to "air condition" a house without using electric equipment.

Large brains for their bodies and the ability to walk upright are two characteristics of human beings.

It didn't look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didn't offend the nose so much, either.

Motorheads have greater ability than office workers.

One traditional belief about television is that it reduces a child's ability to think and to understand the world.

Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking.

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

Regardless of your choice of course, you'll develop your language ability both quickly and effectively.

She also operates a website, where she shares her tips and recipes, with the goal of demonstrating that everyone has the ability to control what's on their plate.

So, always try to live a little bit beyond your abilities—and you'll find your abilities are greater than you ever dreamed.

Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.

The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

There is no doubt that this candidate's advantage lies in his ability to communicate with foreigners in English.

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new.

We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the forested future.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem - confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense.

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future.

A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with trying situations involving your children.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

At first glance this might seem like a strength that grants the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by external factors.

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.

Even as we humans count on forests to soak up a good share of the carbon dioxide we produce, we are threatening their ability to do so.

In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose.

In fact, the ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when confronted by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.

ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.

Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.

To a certain extent, our ability to excel in making the connections that drive intelligence is inherited.

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of "deep work"—the ability to focus without distraction.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

实用场景例句

I try to do my job to the best of my ability (= as well as I can) .: 我尽全力做好我的工作。

A woman of her ability will easily find a job.: 有她那样才能的女性找工作不难。

He was a man of extraordinary abilities.: 他才干卓著。

students of mixed abilities: 能力各不相同的学生

The system has the ability to run more than one program at the same time.: 该系统能够同时运行一个以上的程序。

Everyone has the right to good medical care regardless of their ability to pay.: 无论支付能力如何，每个人都有权得到良好的医疗。

A gentle form of exercise will increase your ability to relax.: 和缓的运动锻炼会提高自我放松的能力。

Almost everyone has some musical ability.: 几乎人人都有一些音乐才能。

They tackled them to the best of their ability.: 他们竭尽全力给予解决。

I have confidence in the ability of the players...: 我对于球员们的能力充满信心。

I take care of them to the best of my abilities...: 我尽我所能地照顾他们。

The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job...: 公众从来不相信他有能力胜任这一职位。

He has the ability to bring out the best in others.: 他能做到扬人之长。

Her drama teacher spotted her ability...: 她的戏剧老师发现了她的才能。

His native musical ability impressed his teacher.: 他天生的音乐才能给老师留下了深刻印象.

He towers above his fellow students in mathematical ability.: 他的数学才能胜过他的同学.

Stewardesses on planes should be employed for their ability, not for their looks.: 应该根据能力而不是容貌来录用飞机上的女服务员.

Some people refer all the troubles to bad luck instead of lack of ability.: 有些人把自己所有的苦恼都归咎于运气不佳,而不认为是缺乏能力.

Although the translation is not perfect, he did it to the best of his ability.: 虽然这翻译并不尽善尽美, 但他已尽力而为了.

He is understood to be a man of ability.: 他被认为是一个有能力的人.

I have no doubts as to your ability.: 关于你的能力我毫不怀疑.

The singer was unwise to choose songs which lay beyond his ability.: 这位歌手不明智,选了一些他唱不好的歌曲.

The system has the ability to run more than one program at the same time.: 该系统能够同时运行一个以上的程序。

The ability to do this will be necessary in future flights to distant planets.: 将来飞往遥远的行星时,需要这样的能力.

I'm not sure about [ of ] his ability to cope with this.: 我对他应付此事的能力还心中无数.

I feel keenly that my ability falls short of my wishes.: 我深感力不从心.

The ability for him to get the job is utmost.: 他得到这份工作的可能性极大.

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