in authority

基本解释

Would you have one in authority over you scream at you and talk down to you?
你希望有个权威人事在你之上对你咆哮用高人一等的口气对你说话吗？
Yet there was no sign that anyone in authority had ever conducted any sort of investigation.
但是却找不到当局进行过任何形式的调查的迹象。
In both cases, somebody taught the child a rule, but the rule against pushing has a stickiness about it, one that resists coming unstuck even if someone in authority countenances it.
在这两个例子当中，某人教给孩子一条规定，但是，不准推搡之规定有一种“粘滞性”，一个人不遵守它也会遭到失败，即使某位权威人士支持推搡行为。

Hamas captured control of Gaza from the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in 2007.
So, the authority of the canon that he invokes to defend himself in fact suggests perhaps that he has some doubts? Yes.
因此，那些他用来维护他自己的大炮的权威,表明了他实际上是有怀疑的。
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We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.
换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。
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One reason is a healthy desire to tweak the noses of people in authority.
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