1. And because such all-round ability is less common, this would be the reason for there being fewer mathematically talented girls.
    又因为这样全面的能力并不常见，这就解释了为何有数学天赋的女孩较为少见。

2. As Daniel Goleman suggests in his new book, Emotional Intelligence, the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that intelligent but inflexible people don't have the right stuff in an age when the adaptive ability is the key to survival.
    正如丹尼尔·戈尔曼在他的新书《情感智能》中所说，最新的科研结果似乎表明，在一个适应能力是生存关键的年代，聪明但缺乏灵活性的人并不具备这种适应的才能。

3. Sarah's ability to solve her dilemma by rooming with her identical twin is unusual, but the conflict she faced is not.
    萨拉以和同卵双生姐妹同住的办法走出了她的困境，这种办法倒很少见，但她所遇到的冲突却并不罕见。

4. Studies of Olympic athletes, world-class musicians and chess masters show that their common trait is the ability to motivate themselves to pursue harsh training routines.
    对奥运选手、世界级的音乐家和国际象棋大师的研究表明，他们的共同特点就是具有促使自己坚持艰苦的日常训练的能力。

5. Juku defenders say that students are only gaining the discipline and the ability to endure pressure that they will need in life.
    支持课外学校的人说，学生们仅仅是增强了纪律观念，提高了今后生活所需要的承受压力的能力。

6. Cleaning this smoke has exceeded the protective ability of natural processes.
    要清除这些烟尘已超出了自然作用的保护能力。

7. Our skin has the ability of regeneration.
    我们的皮肤具有再生功能。

8. Oscar Wilde had it right when he said we ought to give our ability to our work but our genius to our lives.
    奥斯卡·王尔德说得好：我们应该把我们的才能用到工作中去，而把我们的天赋投入到我们的生活中去。

9. Our ability to believe what we want to has, in the past, made life easy for the beauty industry.
    人们对自己想要的东西的信任在过去使得美容业容易生存。

10. I do not doubt your ability to do the work.
    我不怀疑你有担任这项工作的能力。