A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
权威
Authority
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
以权相争的，不是用自己的聪明;他只是在利用他的记忆。
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
没有任何压迫比法律权威的扭曲和过分施加的压迫更沉重或持久。
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
一个稳坐权力宝座的人，很快就会学会思考治国之道的最高课程是安全，而不是进步。
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
我的理智的确控制着我的感情，但不管它有什么权威，它对感情与其说是统治不如说是专制。
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
我认为最高法院确实有权力，但并没有被使用，来宣布毯子对所有人，所有成年人都是正确的。
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
仅仅因为人们拥有权力，如果这看起来不对，就不要去做。如果它违反了你自己的原则，就不要去做。
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
一个男人和他的妻子之间，除了爱，没有什么可以支配。权柄是给孩童和仆人的，却不是不可爱的。
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.
无论有意或无意，都不应作出任何将导致削弱机构信誉和权威的努力。
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
由于权力腐败，社会对道德权威和品格的要求随着职位的重要性增加而增加。
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
这是否意味着我拒绝一切权威?打消念头。在靴子的问题上，我听从制鞋商的权威。
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
我当然不是爱情方面的权威，因为爱情方面没有权威，只有那些幸运的人和没有幸运的人。
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
无论什么东西，只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的，人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
自然知识的每一个重大进步都涉及到对权威的绝对排斥。
I've never been any good with authority.
我对权威从来就不在行。
We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.
我们需要阻止父母权威的侵蚀。
Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
权威不是一个人“拥有”的品质，也就是说他拥有财产或身体素质。权威是指人与人之间的一种关系，在这种关系中，一个人认为另一个人比他优越。
Authority forgets a dying king.
权威会忘记一个垂死的国王。
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
在南太平洋的一些文化中，说话者拿着海螺壳作为权威地位的象征。领导者必须明白谁掌握着主动权，也就是说，谁应该被倾听，什么时候应该被倾听。