competence
n[U]
1 ~ (for/as/in sth); ~ (in doing sth/to do sth) being competent; ability 胜任; 能力; 称职
No one doubts her competence as a teacher. 谁也不怀疑她能胜任教师工作.
competence in solving problems 解决问题的能力.
2 ~ (to do sth) (of a court, a judge, etc) legal authority (指法院、 法官等的)管辖权, 权限
matters within/beyond the competence of the court, ie ones that it can/cannot legally deal with 法院权限以内[以外]的事(法院依法能[不能]解决的事).
In our house, the chores are all distributed fairly.
在我们家里,做杂事都是公平分配的。
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.