核心畫面

A useful picture: not what someone is doing right now, but what they could do if the moment called for it — the power sitting ready inside a person, a machine, or an organisation. Like a container with room still in it, capability is measured by how much it can hold or handle, not by what is in it today.

不是「現在正在做什麼」,而是「真要做的時候做得到什麼」——那種安靜擺在人、機器或組織裡面、隨時可以被叫出來的力量。你更多收起不是「現在正在做什麼」,而是「真要做的時候做得到什麼」——那種安靜擺在人、機器或組織裡面、隨時可以被叫出來的力量。你可以想成一個容器:重點在它「裝得下多少」,不是它今天裡面裝了什麼。

One branch

做得到的力量

這一家就是核心本身:把「潛在做得到」放在人、機器或組織上。

ability to do something · noun · C1

The skill, power, or natural ability that lets a person, machine, or group do something, especially something difficult.

能力

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

capabilitynoun/ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/

  • 1

    The power or ability to generate an outcome.

    • And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsA digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.

    • A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.
    • Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。