英语词汇“able”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	able
释义	able I. \ˈābəl\ adjective (abler \-b(ə)lə(r)\ ; ablest \-b(ə)lə̇st\) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin habilis easily managed, apt, skillful, from habēre to have, hold — more at habit 1. a. : possessed of needed powers (as intelligence or strength) or of needed resources (as means or influence) to accomplish an objective < able to solve a problem > < able to buy a house > b. : designed, constructed, or naturally endowed with the power to perform a task or achieve an end < machines able to lift 10 tons > < owls able to see in the dark > c. : having freedom from restriction or obligation or from conditions preventing an action < American women are able to vote > < we were able to meet her at noon > d. : constituted or situated so as to be susceptible or readily subjected to some action or treatment < a shoe able to be repaired > < a hill able to be climbed > 2. a. obsolete : having physical strength : robust b. now dialect : well-to-do, rich 3. dialect : fit to cope with — usually used with for < able for four helpings of dessert > 4. : marked by intelligence, knowledge, skill, or competence < an able and rapacious tyrant — H.O.Taylor > < an able, moving, and fascinating portrait — B.D.Wolfe > 5. : legally qualified : possessed of legal competence < able to inherit property > Synonyms: capable, competent, qualified: placed after the noun modified, able is likely to indicate only the power, strength, skill, or resources needed for an indicated action < some day I would be like one of themselves, able to kill animals and catch fish — W.H.Hudson > Placed before the noun modified, it may suggest a combination of superior qualities, especially as demonstrated in practice < Cleveland was an able leader, honest, courageous … a fine exponent of Manchester liberalism — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < a priest … an able one, by all means, not only devoted, but resourceful and intelligent — Willa Cather > capable is commonly interchangeable with able in this sense. It is more likely than able to be used in situations involving possibilities and potentialities < democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress — F.D.Roosevelt > < a being … more capable of feeling than even the most gifted of common men — Aldous Huxley > Often it suggests powers of adjustment, adaptability, or resourcefulness adequate for treating satisfactorily whatever matter is under consideration < it was impossible even to recall the house of mourning without a grateful memory of Louisa's capable dealing with funerals — Ellen Glasgow > < only people who valued machines more than men were capable under these conditions of governing men to their profit and advantage — Lewis Mumford > competent suggests complete fitness for adequate performance < Tolstoy and Turgenev were quite competent in Russian, though they learned English, French, and German in infancy — Bertrand Russell > Sometimes the word connotes special professional or technical training < the associated workers must be competent scholars in language and palaeography — F.N.Robinson > Sometimes competent is used to suggest adequacy but to deny outstanding superiority and hence may be derogatory < the difference between a great dancer and a merely competent dancer is in the vital flame, that impersonal and … inhuman force which transpires between each of the great dancer's movements — T.S.Eliot > < they were all competent practical mechanics, but Gay was an inspired mechanic — John Steinbeck > qualified suggests either adequate experience and knowledge, satisfactory special training, or formal certification as being especially trained < Poky … was … my guide … no mortal could be better qualified; his native country was not large, and he knew every inch of it — Herman Melville > < being a qualified doctor, she knew all the facts of life — Upton Sinclair > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English ablen, from able, adjective 1. obsolete : to make capable : enable, strengthen 2. obsolete : to vouch for III. \ābəl\ Usage: usually capitalized — a communications code word for the letter a
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