四级If the law isn't there, people will drive within their ability range.

如果法律不存在，人们将在其能力范围内驾驶。

四级But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don't is their ability to stay motivated

但找到工作的人和没有找到工作的人的区别在于他们保持积极性的能力

考研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.

即使我们人类指望森林吸收我们产生的大量二氧化碳，我们也在威胁他们这样做的能力。

高考Her eagerness to develop her reading ability.

她渴望发展自己的阅读能力。

六级Developing independent and creative thinking abilities.

培养独立和创造性思维能力。

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

所以，总是试着活得比你的能力稍高一点，你会发现你的能力比你想象的要大。

高考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.

根据我的经验，人们不经常做饭有三个主要原因：能力、金钱和时间。我会把钱作为一个话题留到下一天。

四级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.

他们的孩子保留了自己产生叶绿素的能力，尽管他们在吃了足够多的海藻以窃取必要的基因之前无法从阳光中产生能量，而这些基因是他们自己还无法产生的。

六级So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

因此，让你失望的并不是你的记忆，而是你从中检索信息的能力。

六级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.

然而，一旦这些植物开始生长，它们似乎就不能保持在茎或叶中按代谢暂停按钮的能力。

六级It destroys the patient's ability to think.

它破坏了患者的思考能力。

四级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.

孩子能够深深地专注于某件事，并从中获得强烈的快乐，这是成年人余生都在努力恢复的能力。

四级They can affect a person's ability to get a job and qualification for benefits.

它们会影响一个人获得工作的能力和获得福利的资格。

高考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.

在北京奥运会上，她成为有史以来第一位获得100米奥运金牌的牙买加女子，消除了人们对她是否有能力始终如一地表现的怀疑。

考研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.

事实上，面对压力时，情绪调节或保持情绪控制的能力是所有生活技能中最重要的一项。

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

尤其是数字技术、电子邮件和智能手机大大提高了员工在传统办公室之外的工作效率。

四级This gives rats the ability to detect slight smells.

这使老鼠能够察觉轻微的气味。

六级Its result helps understand babies' language ability.

其结果有助于理解婴儿的语言能力。

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

心理健康是包含自尊的种子——对自己的自信和对常识的信任。

六级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.

它们缺乏蓄水结构，而且它们在岩石表面的存在使它们无法开采地下水，因此它们反而发展了改变新陈代谢的能力。

六级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.

然而，他们在与非成员共享信息时更为谨慎，因为该组织防范其他人发展劫持和控制其卫星的能力。

四级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.

瑞典的一项研究表明，能够在自然环境中玩耍的幼儿园儿童比只在普通游乐场玩耍的儿童患病率低，身体能力强。

六级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

20世纪30年代，只有十分之一的美国人拥有四年制大学的学位，招生委员会满足于要求申请人提供一份学校论文样本，以评估他们的写作能力

六级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.

研究发现，肥胖与认知功能受损有关，这是通过一系列学习和记忆测试评估的，例如记忆几分钟或几小时前出现的单词列表的能力。

六级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.

十多年前，当时就读于范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新环境的能力，而是他们称之为未来学习准备的素质。

六级Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

心理学家称他们为“欺骗大师”，当有人说谎时，这些人天生就有能力完全自信地说出谎言。

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

我们这些穿着干净衬衫在办公室里工作的人没有汽车司机的能力。

四级Analytical skills are our ability to understand and solve problems using Information we have available.

分析技能是我们利用现有信息理解和解决问题的能力。

四级While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

虽然对许多人来说这听起来像是一种优势，但患有这种罕见疾病的人往往会发现他们非同寻常的能力是一种负担。

六级The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job

学校留着钱，但孩子离开时背负着沉重的债务，没有学位，也没有能力找到更好的工作

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

关于电视的一个传统观点是，它降低了孩子思考和理解世界的能力。

四级She was designed to slowly improve her ability to handle conversations, but some people were teaching Taylor racist ideas.

她被设计来慢慢提高自己处理对话的能力，但有些人在传授泰勒种族主义思想。

考研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.

我们能够通过停顿来抑制我们的本能反应，这是我们与动物的区别：狗只能断断续续地或几分钟地思考未来。

四级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.

这反过来又对它们的饮食产生重大影响，导致科学家推测，学习特定群体狩猎方法的能力可能会推动这些动物的基因发育。

六级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.

皮亚杰认为，一旦青少年进入工作世界，他们新获得的形成假设的能力使他们能够创造出过于理想的表象。

六级A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

一个科学小组正在研究11个半月大的儿童的思维能力。

六级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.

机器人的外观会影响其与人类成功互动的能力，这就是为什么人类互动机器人研究的riKEN Tri协作中心决定开发一种看起来像巨大泰迪熊的机器人护士的原因。

考研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

为了鼓励创新和竞争，报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对teac的资助

六级You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team.

你相信你有领导能力，你的老板让你负责一个新的工作团队。

考研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.

一个更实际的目标是，在面对涉及孩子的艰难处境时，尽你最大的能力，尽量做到宽容和沉着。

四级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.

最新的《国家期刊》民意调查询问了受访者关于美国梦的情况，他们需要什么来实现自己的目标，以及他们是否觉得自己在很大程度上控制了自己的成功能力。

六级The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

大学生培养了提出问题的能力，这是批判性思维的基石。

四级As a result, they will help improve your ability to think.

因此，它们将有助于提高你的思考能力。

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

兼职工作、家务、在学校的努力和处理问题的能力得分。

六级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.

2016年的一项研究发现，用户对giraff机器人增强交流和减少孤独感的能力持“一贯积极的态度”。

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

除了简单美观之外，土坯住宅令人钦佩的是，它们不使用电气设备就能“调节”房屋的空调。

六级The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

该公司可能非常乐观，但他们的机器检测欺骗的能力并没有提供可靠的证据。

考研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.

在人际影响基本原理的基础上，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响他人的能力及其受影响倾向相关的变量，研究了社会影响的动态。

考研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.

为了鼓励创新和竞争，该报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对教师的资助，鼓励学者将他们的学习成果用于应对当今的巨大挑战。

四级Their flexibility determines one's abilities.

他们的灵活性决定了一个人的能力。

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

不管你选择什么课程，你都会快速有效地发展你的语言能力。

四级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

一块睡的能力(整块时间) 夜间睡眠随着年龄的增长而减少，但我们需要的睡眠量并没有改变，”Drummond博士在圣地亚哥举行的美国科学进步协会会议上说

六级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

他们认为，女孩大脑左侧的神经末梢比男孩发育得更快，正是这一侧大脑强烈地影响着一个人使用语言和记忆事物的能力

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

这种能力的一部分是他们可以推断出别人知道或在想什么。

六级Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

全球经济也不能原谅识字、数学和科学能力日益薄弱的美国劳动力。

六级But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students.

但这可能更多地与他们选择最好学生的能力有关。

六级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

康奈尔大学法学院的罗伯特·萨默斯（Robert Summers）教授在他的著作中禁止使用笔记本电脑。他认为，合格的律师需要具备广泛的复杂推理能力

考研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.

由于我们与他们的主要业务是让他们共同生活，我们不禁要考虑我们是否正在形成确保这种能力的力量。

六级They want to know if the economic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal we signed last November.

他们想知道经济危机是否会影响我们执行去年11月签署的协议的能力。

考研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.

它能让我们对自己的生活有一个视角——不把自己看得太严肃，嘲笑自己，看到更大的图景，看到事情会发展。

考研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.

为了克服过分强调忙碌的陷阱，《深度工作：分心世界中专注成功的规则》一书的作者卡尔·纽波特建议养成“深度工作”的习惯——不分心专注的能力。

四级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.

报告作者指出，美国未能投资基础设施不仅影响房地产市场的健康，也影响我们保持全球竞争力的能力。

六级exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

出口正在增长，因为越来越多的外国人有能力购买我们生产和销售的东西。

四级Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

错误会打击他们的自信心，因为他们把错误归因于缺乏能力，而他们感到无力改变。

四级Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

建立一个孩子感受快乐的能力，而不是把快乐推到一边，这并不难。

六级Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

许多第一代大学生对自己获得大学学位的能力表示怀疑。

六级help employees make the best use of their abilities to achieve their career goals

帮助员工充分利用自己的能力实现职业目标

四级A good playground helps kids develop their physical abilities.

一个好的操场有助于孩子们发展他们的体能。

六级But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

但是，对大多数人来说，随着我们道德感和自我调节能力的发展，撒谎变得有限。

考研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.

部长们还应考虑在租赁环境中创造更大的确定性，这将对注册供应商从收入中为新开发项目提供资金的能力产生重大影响。

六级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.

尼日利亚农业部长奥杜·奥格贝（Audu Ogbeh）警告说，这种害虫可能会给该国的粮食安全带来严重问题，因为这种蛾子也能攻击辣椒和土豆等作物。

六级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

加州大学洛杉矶分校睡眠研究人员兼医学教授刘教授将长期睡眠受限的人带到实验室进行一个周末的睡眠，期间他们每晚记录大约10个小时的睡眠，结果显示胰岛素的处理能力有所提高

四级The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

作者的实验表明，思维定势固定的学生认为必须努力学习是能力低下的表现。

四级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

报告说，美国的城市化将继续是影响工业的最重要的问题，因为全国的城市模仿步行能力和以交通为导向的发展，使得像纽约和旧金山这样的城市成为成功者。

高考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.

如果真的有人担心教授的专业性或能力，一定要使用在线课程评估冷静地提出你的意见。

四级John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

AAA汽车工程和维修部总经理约翰·尼尔森（John Nielsen）表示，测试表明驾驶员可能高估了自己的能力。

四级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

利用从科学、艺术和技术中获得的每一种可用工具和洞察力来解决未来问题的能力，以及利用当前机会的能力，将有助于他们和美国

四级An increasingly important skill will be your ability to deal with change and even welcome it.

一项越来越重要的技能将是你应对变化甚至欢迎变化的能力。

考研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.

根据普林斯顿大学的研究，人们仅仅根据你的长相，在十分之一秒的时间内就可以评估你的能力、可信度和喜欢的能力。

四级Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.

他们抵抗几乎任何灾难的能力使他们看起来像漫画书中的人物。

六级Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

认知衰退是指随着年龄的增长，学习新技能或回忆单词、姓名和面孔的能力的丧失。

四级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.

团队建设技能供不应求：德勤报告称，在他们接触的高管中，只有12%的人认为他们了解人际网络中的合作方式，只有21%的人对他们建立跨职能团队的能力充满信心。

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

真正的创造力是接受现有事物并创造新事物的能力。

六级I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.

我发现这种瞬间转移注意力的能力通常是一件好事，比如在公共交通工具上打发时间。

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

但安德森认为，看电视的时间与阅读能力无关。

六级The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

正是由于缺乏一个恢复期，我们的集体恢复力和成功能力受到了极大的阻碍。

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

在某种程度上，我们在建立驱动智能的连接方面表现出色的能力是遗传的。

四级What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

儿童与成人的区别在于他们从所做的事情中获得快乐的强大能力。

考研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.

在对乔治亚大学学生进行的2019次调查中，职业办公室发现未来雇主最有希望的特质是提供稳定就业的能力，其次是专业发展和培训，然后是鼓舞人心的目的。

六级It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

它低估了学生区分好老师和差老师的能力。

六级This can hinder your ability to make decisions, speak up and gain recognition for your individual skills and strengths.

这可能会妨碍你做出决策、畅所欲言和获得个人技能和优势认可的能力。

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

你学的越多，尝试的越多，你就越有能力控制你的饮食和日程安排。

四级In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

特别是，将糟糕的表现归因于缺乏能力比认为缺乏努力更能抑制动机。

六级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.

大量的工作、医院和教育，以及摆脱农民农业生活无聊的能力吸引着移民到城市。

六级Their ability to deal with financial problems

他们处理财务问题的能力

六级In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability

在过去，申请者只需提交一份学校论文样本就可以显示他们的写作能力

四级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.

另一组无助的孩子仅仅因为他们在较容易的问题上取得了成功而得到奖励，但并没有提高他们解决数学难题的能力。

考研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

基于这一关于人际影响的基本事实，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响能力相关的许多变量，研究了社会影响的动态

四级mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

错误会打击他们的自信心，因为他们把错误归因于缺乏能力，而他们感到无力改变。

四级They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

他们对努力持否定态度，认为必须努力工作是能力低下的表现。