cannot，must not，should not，unable，be incapable of ；

[例句] 对于现况的不满，不能只是抱怨，要有勇气作出改变。 If you're not satisfied with the life you're living, don't just complain. Do something about it.

[例句] 但法律专家们不能肯定这一指控是否成立。 But legal experts are not sure if such a charge can stick.

imbecility，mental deficiency，[医] dysnusia，feeblemindedness，moronism ；

[例句] 他低能得无以复加, 然而却是出于好心. He's hopelessly inefficient , but I suppose he means well.

[例句] 这最多也不过是一批低能的小人物自己干的无聊把戏而已. At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.

radiation energy，radiant energy，radiotechnology ；

[例句] 正如在1.21中所指出的,在总能量中, 辐射能仅占很少的一部分. As indicated in 1.21, the radiation energy is a very small proportion of the total energy.

[例句] 这种表面不会反射辐射能, 因此呈现黑色. Such a surface would reflect no radiant energy, and hence would appear black in color.

proficiency，potential ；

[例句] 他全身心地投入，最大限度地激发学生的潜能。 He is totally dedicated and brings out the best in his pupils.

[例句] 这种提高生命力和潜能的体验使我充满了欢乐. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy.

[口] ability，capability，skill，talent ；

[例句] 他吸收利用互不相关的零碎信息的能耐惊人。 His ability to absorb bits of disconnected information was astonishing.

[例句] 他将比赛技能提至所要求的水平，这说明他颇有能耐。 It says a lot for him that he has raised his game to the level required.

able person，capable brains，able man ；

[例句] 强中自有强中手, 能人背后有能人. However strong you are, there's always someone stronger.

[例句] 大使们都说他是该国首屈一指的大能人. Ambassadors report him the ablest man in the country.

show off one's skill or ability，parade one's ability ；

[例句] 纯属逞能的举动 an act of sheer bravado

[例句] 那你就不会这样逞能了. Then you will not be so smart. "

eigenstate，energy eigenstate，energy state，quantum state ；

[例句] 碱金属原子的价原子具有两种能态. The valence atom of an alkali - metal atom has two states.

[例句] 我们能使能态形成异常分布. We can bring about abnormal distribution of energy states.

hydroenergy ；

[例句] 水能把樟脑从其酒精溶液中淀析出来. Water precipitates camphor from its alcoholic solution.

[例句] 水能使酒变淡. The water will dilute the wine.

as likely as not，in all probability，ten to one；名 It is likely to，likely ；

[例句] 这些火灾很可能会彻底毁掉这片土地上的森林。 The fires are likely to permanently deforest the land.

[例句] 全球性生态保护工作很可能会和地方生态系统存在矛盾。 Global ecological efforts can easily be at odds with local ecologies.

able，capable，competent，efficient，able-minded ；

[例句] 英国皇家空军表彰他是一名非常能干的机械师。 The RAF recognized him as an out-standingly able engineer.

[例句] 尤里·斯科科夫得到了这份工作，他是一位能干的管理人员。 The job went to Yuri Skokov, a capable administrator.

impossible，impossibility，out of the question，when the devil is blind ；

[例句] 奇迹就是看似不可能，却发生了。 A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.

[例句] 风险不可能完全消除，但可以通过防范和培训来降低。 You could never eliminate risk, but preparation and training could attenuate it.

macro，macroefficiency ；

be on [in] the cards ；

[例句] 他们验明6种植物有可能提炼出药物麻醉剂。 They identified six plants as having potential for development into pharmaceutical drugs.

[例句] 这些情绪有可能促使人们想要推翻现行的体制。 These feelings are likely to make people attempt to overthrow the system.

deenergize，de-energizing ；

[例句] 你到那里去能保证有职业和足够的收入 吗 ? Will you be assured of a career and adequate salary if you go there?

[例句] 我巴不得现在就到广阔的田野里去. 能轻松一下简直太好了. I can't wait to go out into the wide open spaces. It'll be great to unwind.

eros，sexual [sex] instinct ；

[例句] 想在混乱中理出头绪是一种知性本能。 The wish to impose order upon confusion is a kind of intellectual instinct.

[例句] 他甚至认为艺术也是性本能的一种流露. He even supposes that art is a manifestation of the sexual instinct.

apprehensibility ；

[例句] “我能理解你的感受，”德斯蒙德很通情达理地说。 "I can understand how you feel," Desmond said with great reasonableness.

[例句] 罗伊用简单的、人人都能理解的语言讲述了他那个伤感的故事。 Roy told his sorrowful tale with simple words anybody could understand.

able ；

[例句] 静电能的加和必须根据离子的具体位置来计算. The electrostatic summation must be evaluated for an explicIt'set of ion position.

[例句] 我们称之为质量的东西只是能的另一种形态. What we call mass is only another manifestation of energy.

fertilizability，fertility ；

[例句] 这些做法对于植物的能育性常有损害,这一点是无可置疑的. That these processes are often injurious to the fertility of a plant cannot be doubted.

[例句] 这样的杂交随时都会发现有合理的间型能育性. Such crosses are found to be reasonably interfertile.

impotence ；

[例句] 手术让他变得性无能. The operation left him impotent.

[例句] 这个小丑性无能有自杀倾向,愚蠢! This clown's impotent, suicidal and incredibly stupid.