ask og 117

closedeyes

没有the ability of sth的用法         

From Longman:
1 [countable] the state of being able to do something
ability to do something
the ability to walkThe health center serves all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.I don't have the ability to say 'no'.2 [uncountable and countable] someone's level of skill at doing something
athletic/musical/artistic etc ability
The test measures verbal and mathematical ability.leadership abilityIt takes hard work and natural ability to make it as a professional athlete.There are musicians of all abilities in the orchestra.of great/exceptional etc ability
He's a writer of remarkable ability.
of high/low/average ability
students of average abilitymixed ability classes (=classes that include students who are at different levels)
to the best of your ability as well as you can:
He completed the job to the best of his ability.

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-4-17 23:33:14编辑过]

Avantasia

补充一下:

正确用法是the ability (of sb) to do sth 没有ability+ of doing/ for sb to do/for doing的说法

vedder

《英汉多功能词典》里面ability词条说要避免使用“ability of doing ”的用法

mmfoolish

A中it 是否指代不清？为何ets没有指出呢？

w0007545

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)   from a one-page writing sample that it can assess.

(B)    from a one-page writing sample it has the abil­ity of assessing

(C)   the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D)   to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E)    being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

B中改为 the ability to assess对吗？that省略？

brent_zhang

宾语从句的that是不能省略的，并且has the ability是一种笨拙的用法

WBS2007

关于这个题目的A选项，

我称之为一脚踏两船，前后都沾边。怎么解释？看一下from a one-page writing sample跟前后成分的两种可能的理解就知道了。

1)A firm claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess ....

2)A firm claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess ....

FionaLiang

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)   from a one-page writing sample that it can assess.

(B)    from a one-page writing sample it has the abil­ity of assessing

(C)   the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D)   to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E)    being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

C中改为 the ability to assess对吗？

也就是，claim the ability这种用法可以吗？

FionaLiang

顶

roric

以下是引用FionaLiang在2006-5-7 15:45:00的发言：

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)   from a one-page writing sample that it can assess.

(B)    from a one-page writing sample it has the abil­ity of assessing

(C)   the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D)   to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E)    being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

C中改为 the ability to assess对吗？

也就是，claim the ability这种用法可以吗？

个人认为也不能这样改， the firm ...claims the ability,from...,to assess...,已经改变句子的强调重心了，而且claims  ability也有表意问题。菜鸟回