1.能力
Yourability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
e.g. The public never had faith in hisability to handle the job...
公众从来不相信他有能力胜任这一职位。
e.g. He has theability to bring out the best in others.
他能做到扬人之长。
2.才能;技能;本领
Yourability is the quality or skill that you have which makes it possible for you to do something.
e.g. Her drama teacher spotted herability...
她的戏剧老师发现了她的才能。
e.g. I have confidence in theability of the players...
我对于球员们的能力充满信心。
3.尽…所能地;竭尽全力地
If you do somethingto the best of yourabilities orto the best of yourability, you do it as well as you can.
e.g. I take care of them to the best of my abilities...
我尽我所能地照顾他们。
e.g. They tackled them to the best of theirability.
他们竭尽全力给予解决。
Do not confuse
ability with
capability and
capacity. You often use
ability to say that someone can do something well.
He had remarkable ability as a musician. ...the ability to bear hardship. A person's
capability is the amount of work they can do and how well they can do it.
...a job that was beyond the capability of one man. ...the director's ideas of the capability of the actor. If someone has a particular
capacity, a
capacity for something, or a
capacity to do something, they have the qualities required to do it.
Capacity is a more formal word than
ability.
...their capacity for hard work. ...his capacity to see the other person's point of view.不要混淆
ability, cap
ability 和 capacity。
ability 常用于表示某人将某件事做好的能力:He had remarkable
ability as a musician(他拥有杰出的音乐才华),the
ability to bear hardship(承受苦难的能力)。cap
ability 指某人所能完成的工作量以及所能达到的工作质量:a job that was beyond the cap
ability of one man(个人力所不及的工作),the director's ideas of the cap
ability of the actor(导演对于这个演员演技的看法)。capacity指做成某件事所需的素质, 用法比
ability 更加正式,例如 their capacity for hard work(他们能吃苦耐劳),his capacity to see the other person's point of view(他领会他人观点的能力)。