Abilities

(pl. ) of Ability

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• 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.
• Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It was the old girl that brought out my musical abilities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A mean opinion of her abilities was not confined to _them_. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Fourthly, of the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants and members of the society. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The guests looked at the young man, but he hastened to disclaim any such abilities, and said that he had never even seen cotton-seed. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• When the establishment of law and order afforded him this leisure, he often wanted the inclination, and almost always the requisite abilities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I have told Spaniards we can do something better than they can when the rule is never to speak of your own exploits or abilities. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The abilities, both civil and military, of the Greeks and Romans, will readily be allowed to have been at least equal to those of any modern nation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Now, are the circumstances of the country such, that a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities would have a fair chance of rising in the social scale? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was thus, as we are told by Machiavel, that the agents of Lorenzo of Medicis, not a prince of mean abilities, carried on his trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His abilities in every respect improve as much upon acquaintance as his manners and person. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• They certainly confirm the very high opinion which I had formed of his abilities. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If you had the abilities of all the great men, past and present, you could do nothing well without sincerely meaning it and setting about it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A man of real abilities can scarce find out a more humiliating or a more unprofitable employment to turn them to. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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