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 authority [ɒ:'θɒriti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 权力, 当权者, 当局, 权威, 专家

[经] 代理权, 授权, 权威


  1. My parents think that the contemporary young people have no respect for authority.
    我父母认为现在的年轻人不尊重权威。
  2. The government is the highest authority in the country.
    政府是国家的最高权力机构。
  3. This old man is a leading authority on wheat diseases.
    这位老人是小麦病虫害方面的权威。


authority
[ noun ]
  1. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

    2. <noun.attribute>
    he has the authority to issue warrants
    deputies are given authorization to make arrests
    a place of potency in the state
  2. (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others

    3. <noun.person>
    the authorities have issued a curfew
  3. an expert whose views are taken as definitive

    4. <noun.person>
    he is an authority on corporate law
  4. freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

    5. <noun.cognition>
    his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular
    after that failure he lost his confidence
    she spoke with authority
  5. an administrative unit of government

    6. <noun.group>
    the Central Intelligence Agency
    the Census Bureau
    Office of Management and Budget
    Tennessee Valley Authority
  6. official permission or approval

    7. <noun.attribute>
    authority for the program was renewed several times
  7. an authoritative written work

    8. <noun.communication>
    this book is the final authority on the life of Milton


Authority \Au*thor"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Authorities}. [OE. autorite,
auctorite, F. autorit['e], fr. L. auctoritas, fr. auctor. See
{Author}, n.]
1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act;
power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or
trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the
authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over
children; the authority of a court.

Thus can the demigod, Authority,
Make us pay down for our offense. --Shak.

By what authority doest thou these things ? --Matt.
xxi. 23.

2. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or
command; as, the local authorities of the States; the
military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

3. The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem;
influence of character, office, or station, or mental or
moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or
obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of
great authority.

4. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in
support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence:
(a) Testimony; witness. ``And on that high authority had
believed.'' --Milton.
(b) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official
declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement
worthy to be taken as a precedent.
(c) A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the
author of the book.
(d) Justification; warrant.

Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern
Authority for sin, warrant for blame. --Shak.

  1. Under the measure, the arrest authority for Border Patrol agents has been expanded from immigration law violations to other crimes, including suspected drug activity.
  2. In its frequent second-guessing of the colonial administration, Xinhua has come to be viewed widely as a parallel authority in the territory.
  3. AMR had also sought to foil Mr. Trump in Congress by lobbying for legislation that would have bolstered the authority of the Transportation Department to reject airline buy-outs.
  4. The Energy Department noted, however, that it retained regulatory authority over radioactive portions of its wastes.
  5. Bush's authority to negotiate a new world trade pact won't be extended unless "significant progress" is made by March 1, a senior Senate Finance Committee member warned.
  6. Gorbachev's decree also was denounced by Russian parliament leader Vladimir Isakov who told the official Tass news agency that Gorbachev, the Soviet president, overstepped his authority.
  7. Niederberger, who got off the train half an hour earlier and called the transit authority to report the driver, said his warnings were handled too slowly to prevent the accident.
  8. Donna Alston, a spokeswoman for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, said 568 of the authority's 1,510 buses are lift-equipped.
  9. DECIDES, as a consequence, to take the following measure to secure compliance of Iraq with operative paragraph 2 and to restore the authority of the legitimate Government of Kuwait; 3.
  10. Among these is the establishment of an independent review authority to take responsibility from the Home Office for investigating and referring suspect cases back to the Court of Appeal.
  11. In separate cases, seven brokers were sanctioned for violating rules by exercising discretionary authority in accounts without prior customer approval.
  12. If enacted, the bill would transfer from the president to the U.S. trade representative the authority to decide what unfair trade practices another country is engaged in and what, if any, retaliatory measures to impose.
  13. The authority has filed an appeal in state Supreme Court claiming insufficient evidence of discrimination and that the award was excessive.
  14. Kuehler's duties at IBM's Armonk, N.Y., headquarters will be about the same as they were in his former job of vice chairman, although he will have slightly more authority, Judice said.
  15. Britain, France and the United States remain the supreme authority in West Berlin and can, if necessary, control the telephone and mail services and police department.
  16. The sentence reduction was unusual but within the judge's authority, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kathleen M. Edge. "The commonwealth obviously would have preferred the full jury verdict," she said.
  17. But six months into his presidency, Salinas now speaks with the authority of some solid progress on one of Mexico's most pressing problems: its $107.4 billion foreign debt.
  18. True, the traditional curriculum has lost much of its authority and certainly needs updating.
  19. But loyalty is not an adequate substitute for the widespread conviction that his government's authority would be fatally undermined.
  20. The Massachusetts governor planned to spend most of today in his office, emerging only to swear in a new member of the state authority which oversees Logan International Airport.
  21. Gramm has said the attempt to grab CFTC authority over stock-index futures is driven by "jealousy" on Wall Street and "regulatory imperialism" at the SEC.
  22. Domestic spending authority would be cut by $678 million, or $401 million in outlays, although some accounts will have new anti-drug and anti-crime money added back to them.
  23. Aoun began the warfare in January by moving to crush Samir Geagea's militia, the main challenger to Aoun's authority in the Christian region.
  24. Congressional and administration negotiators have agreed to give the president authority to block foreign takeovers of U.S. companies if the change in ownership would threaten national security.
  25. Together, the two men show why Sunday's state assembly election is seen as a key test for the PRI, whose authority has seriously eroded.
  26. At the same time, the authority says it saves rate-payers nearly $1 billion a year by providing lower-cost power than that generated by other New York utilities.
  27. Shamir said no, and Yosef then used his spiritual authority to topple Shamir's government by withholding the parliamentary votes of his Shas Party last Thursday.
  28. The mayor, who appointed Gates but lacks the authority to fire him, has previously called for Chief Gates's resignation.
  29. "Our new authority to seek damages allows us to provide a complete remedy for victims of housing discrimination, and the civil penalty provision can constitute a signficant deterrent to such discrimination," Thornburgh said.
  30. Also yesterday, the Bank Board said the federal appeals court in Dallas upheld its authority to freeze the assets of six former officers and directors of a defunct thrift, Vernon Savings & Loan Association, Vernon, Texas.
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