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 authoritative [ɒ:'θɒritәtiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 权威性的, 官方的, 命令式的

[法] 官方的, 当局的, 权威的


  1. This is an authoritative order.
    这是一个必须服从的命令。
  2. Don't speak in an authoritative tone.
    不要用一种命令的口吻说话。
  3. A fundamental set of rules having authoritative weight.
    十条戒律有权威性的一套基本规则


authoritative
[ adj ]
  1. having authority or ascendancy or influence

  2. <adj.all>
    an important official
    the captain's authoritative manner
  3. of recognized authority or excellence

  4. <adj.all>
    the definitive work on Greece
    classical methods of navigation
  5. sanctioned by established authority

  6. <adj.all>
    an authoritative communique
    the authorized biography


Authoritative \Au*thor"i*ta*tive\, a.
1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to
obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

The sacred functions of authoritative teaching.
--Barrow.

2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial;
peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.

The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the
insipid mirth of the other. --Swift.
-- {Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ly}, adv. --
{Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ness}, n.

  1. Mandela, along with Sisulu and other recently freed colleagues, should give the organization a high-profile, authoritative voice inside the country.
  2. More authoritative sources, however, disputed the reports.
  3. Another is relativism, the view that different truths, different views, different ways of thinking, are all equally valid and that there is no authoritative standpoint from which they can be adjudicated.
  4. The government released its first authoritative estimate of the casualties from the earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale.
  5. The task of writing an authoritative and considered economic history of post-war Japan in English has yet to be accomplished.
  6. Many companies must hope that, with such authoritative backing, their shareholders may forgive them for taking a prudent stance.
  7. Yet a powerful and authoritative organisation to represent Britain's teachers is sorely needed. Now is an ideal time to create such a professional organisation, with a new education secretary taking up office.
  8. The information given by different authoritative sources varies in the fantastic range of $55 billion to $80 billion.
  9. Western diplomats said yesterday that specific condemnation of Serbia should follow rather than precede the special investigator's report, which is intended to be an authoritative and objective assessment of the evidence.
  10. The most authoritative study of the period, by the so-called Brady Commission, blamed the market crash on the activities of a surprisingly few professional traders, essentially some portfolio insurers and mutual funds reacting to redemptions.
  11. However, an authoritative trade house recently projected output this year at 7.5 million metric tons, or about 150,000 tons more than last year.
  12. Not that any dictionary of plants, however authoritative, can remain completely unchallenged for long.
  13. Gennady Bezzubenkov, as Prince Yury, led his people in prayer with a fine, authoritative Russian bass.
  14. Economists regard it as one of the most authoritative sources of information about US economic trends. Most economists regard the shortage of national savings as a key problem facing the economy.
  15. Its reports, while still interesting reading, no longer provide the only authoritative judgment of the performance and prospects of developing countries.
  16. 'In extremis the board has got an authoritative function because directors are trustees of the assets.
  17. This has been transferred, with (except for William Cochran's authoritative Elector) a new cast and conductor.
  18. Unesco's data are considered to be authoritative on this topic.
  19. Thus, the influence on public opinion of the party's most authoritative newspaper was visibly on the wane.
  20. From the glossy pages of the world's most authoritative fashion bibles to the windows of the smallest high street store, a new sort of woman is being celebrated.
  21. The survey, the most authoritative guide to households in Great Britain, is based on interviews with 19,229 adults in 9,955 households. The size of the average household in Great Britain has decreased from 2.91 in 1971 to 2.48 last year.
  22. The second book is co-authored by an authoritative military analyst, Kazuhisa Ogawa, and by Shoichi Watanabe, a professor of Japanese culture at Tokyo's Sophia University _ two commentators who share Ishihara's nationalistic views.
  23. Political analysts have said that a nervous, haggard-looking Nixon was outpointed by an assured, authoritative John F. Kennedy, who gained in public opinion polls after the debates and squeaked to a win in the general election.
  24. ANOTHER authoritative study on off-exchange derivatives was released last week.
  25. Their presentations will be authoritative because they are based on hard information from inside the company. Some changes in policy may be announced, together perhaps with the sale of a subsidiary.
  26. He said this can be done only by attaching a reservation to the treaty's resolution of ratification or by obtaining an authoritative and binding commitment from the Soviets.
  27. Then the tone falters. Dense mists of sound build up in the orchestra, submerging any sharpness of mind and obscuring the words, despite the authoritative presence of Elgar Howarth in the pit.
  28. State Councillor Song Jian said Tuesday the State Bureau of Technical Supervision would strengthen supervision over technology and establish an authoritative system of standardization and measurement, the China Daily said.
  29. It allowed Los Angeles to invent itself," said William L. Kahrl, whose 1982 book "Water and Power" is considered an authoritative history of the project.
  30. The authoritative style is an effective and important one.
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