【able音标】 英[ˈeɪbl] 美[ˈeɪbl]
【单词释义】 able是什么意思：
adj.能够的；有能力的；有才干的；(某方面)擅长的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[比较级] abler [最高级] ablest
[反义词] unable adj.未能的;无法的
【常用短语】
be able to do sth. 能够做
【近义词解析】
◇ 能干的
able adj. 能干的，有能力的：指体力或智力方面有能力胜任的，作表语时常后接动词不定式，表示“能够…的”、“会…的”。
capable adj. 能力强的：指具有接受、适应等能力的，强调足以胜任某事；作表语时常后接介词 of，表示“能…的”，其主语可以是人或物。
【单词例句】
◇ And then the grandmother came out as well, alive but hardly able to breathe.
接着，奶奶也活着出来了，只是有点喘不过气来。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ The prince could not forget the girl who left the ball so quickly. So, the prince searched house by house to find the girl who would fit the glass slipper. However, there was no girl who was able to fit the glass slipper. Finally, he came to Cinderella's house.
王子对那位消失在晚会的女孩念念不忘。于是，王子开始寻找能穿上玻璃鞋的女孩。但是，那么多女孩却没有一个能够穿上玻璃鞋。最后，他来到了灰姑娘家。
---- Cinderella
◇ The most important place to remove it from is not in fact the teeth, but the gumline. This is where microbes are best able to infiltrate the gum tissue and cause inflammation, and eventually conditions such as periodontitis.
最该清洁的部位实际上不是牙齿，而是牙龈。这是微生物最容易入侵牙龈组织并引发炎症的地方，最终可能导致牙周炎等病症。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
现在大家就看出来了。她是一位真正的公主，因为压在这二十床垫子和二十床鸭绒被下面的三粒豌豆，她居然还能感觉得出来。除了真正的公主以外，任何人都不会有这么嫩的皮肤的。
---- The Real Princess
◇ "These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!" thought the Emperor. "Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! This stuff must be woven for me immediately."
“那正是我最喜欢的衣服！”皇帝心里想。“我穿了这样的衣服，就可以看出我的王国里哪些人不称职；我就可以辨别出哪些人是聪明人，哪些人是傻子。是的，我要叫他们马上织出这样的布来！”