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单词 capable
释义
capable
adjective
uk
/ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/us
/ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/
B2
ableto do thingseffectivelyandskilfully, and toachieveresults:
有能力的；熟练的；能干的
She's a very capable woman/worker/judge.她是个很能干的女人／很熟练的工人／能力很强的法官。
We need to get anassistantwho's capable andefficient.我们需要一个能力强、效率高的助理。
Synonyms
adept
competent
expert
good
proficient
skilfulUK
capable ofsomething/doing something
B2
having theability,power, orqualitiesto beableto do something:
有能力做…；能做…
Only theDemocraticPartyis capable ofrunningthecountry.只有民主党才有能力治理这个国家。
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  • Ithinkbothsexesareequallycapable oflookingafterchildren.
  • These newbulletsare capable ofinflictingmassiveinjuries.
  • I have somelurkingdoubtsabout whether Simon is really capable of doing thisjob.
  • Weresentthese insinuations that we are not capable ofleadingthecompanyforward.
  • She wouldn'thurtanyone - she'ssimplynot capable of it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Skilled, talented and able
  • able
  • ably
  • accomplished
  • adept
  • adeptly
  • dexterously
  • digital native
  • expert
  • expertly
  • explosiveness
  • pedigreed
  • polished
  • practised
  • preen
  • proficient
  • proficiently
  • well qualified
  • white-collar
  • with the best of themidiom
  • workmanlike
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capably

Idiom

insomeone'scapable hands
-capable
suffix
uk
/-keɪ.pə.bəl/us
/-keɪ.pə.bəl/
addedtonounstoformadjectivesthatmeanableto use thestatedthing:
可…的，有…能力的（加在名次后形成形容词）
These are nuclear-capableaircraft(= they cancarrynuclearweapons).这些飞机可载核武器。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Possible and probable
  • always
  • anything's possibleidiom
  • arguably
  • as never beforeidiom
  • auspiciously
  • bea safe betidiom
  • bet
  • fair
  • lean
  • lean towards sth
  • liable
  • likelihood
  • likely
  • manage
  • maybe
  • probably
  • prospective
  • prospectively
  • realm
  • tip
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(Definition ofcapablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

capable| American Dictionary

capable
adjective
us
/ˈkeɪ·pə·bəl/
having theskillorabilityorstrengthto do something:
She’s a very capablelawyer.

capability

noun[C/U]us
/ˌkeɪ·pəˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
[U]Automation gives us the capability to docertainjobsquicklyand well.
[C]Thesecapabilities, withoutexception, are whatproduceindustryleaders.
(Definition ofcapablefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcapable

capable
They have encouraged and not helped the incapables; they have discouraged and not helped the capables.
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They arecapableof rapid inversion in the excysted metacercaria so extraneous tissue can be quickly drawn into them to secure attachment to host mucosa.
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Agents resemble positioners in that they arecapableof volition and control.
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The extent to which a person feelscapableof managing the external world.
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Chameleon-like, it seemedcapableof changing from educational association to political organization and back before anyone could react.
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The ego, when it is identified with the persona, iscapableonly of external orientation.
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The social model has however proved itselfcapableof revision and adaptation.
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What is important is that the centre should not, in the name of decentralization, abrogate responsibility which only the centre iscapableof fulfilling.
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Critics have often questioned whether localist representations arecapableof generalisation, so its occurrence in a localist network deserves scrutiny.
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Under what circumstances are childrencapableof word learning?
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If dolphins arecapableof collaborative learning, based on experimental evidence of social cognition, cultural learning may prove not to be a uniquely human phenomenon.
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In early development children arecapableof interacting with the environment, but it is implausible to assume that they possess an emulator of the environment.
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We see, therefore, that chimpanzees arecapableof crying for extended periods of time, day after day.
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Additionally, this knowledge must be contained within problem-solving unitscapableof interacting with other problem solvers within the strategic architecture.
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Their members, living and working both in the rural and urban areas, arecapableof paralysing the entire educational system.
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