authority是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 权力; 威信; 当局; 权威，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by ev-ery highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it.
-- Casting his eyes over Gabelle's letter, the same per-sonage in authority showed some disorder and surprise, and looked at Darnay with a close attention.
-- Barsad is the best authority possible, sir,' said Syd-ney, 'and I have it from Mr. Barsad's communication to a friend and brother Sheep over a bottle of wine, that the ar-rest has taken place.
-- To fail in submission to the authority of the Tribunal would be to put yourself out of Law.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch was in principle in favor of the publicity of legal proceedings, though for some higher official considerations he disliked the application of the principle in Russia, and disapproved of it, as far as he could disapprove of anything instituted by authority of the Emperor.
-- Levin still hesitated, but Kitty, who saw that he was bored in Moscow, and urged him to go, on her own authority ordered him the proper nobleman's uniform, costing seven pounds.
-- Katavasov had heard also on excellent authority that the Tsar had said something quite different.
-- But afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer's history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer's history of the church, and seeing that the two churches, in their very conception infallible, each deny the authority of the other, Homiakov's doctrine of the church lost all its charm for him, and this edifice crumbled into dust like the philosophers' edifices.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The disciples of the prophet had since redoubled their efforts, and resisted, by words at least, the authority of Congress.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif assumed that he was the authority to whom all of Martin's friends must be brought for judgment.
-- agitator, the announcement: Gustave Sundelios, well-known authority on cholera prevention, will give an address on "Heroes of Health" at the University summer school next Friday evening.
-- He was a correspondent of many of the nickel-plated Great Men whose pictures and sonorous aphorisms appeared in the magazines: the advertising men who wrote little books about Pep and Optimism, the editor of the magazine which told clerks how to become Goethes and Stonewall Jacksons by studying correspondence-courses and never touching the manhood-rotting beer, and the cornfield sage who was equally an authority on finance, peace, biology, editing, Peruvian ethnology, and making oratory pay.
-- That leaves-- two and six and two make ten, if I'm any authority on higher math--that leaves fourteen hours a day for research (except when you got something special on), with no Director and no Society patrons and no Trustees that you've got to satisfy by making fool reports.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must certainly be a man of authority and an intimate acquaintance.
-- So at least I have excellent authority for believing.'
-- That's only theory and my theory, and what authority am I for you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having issued this mandate with as muchpotentiality as if she had been a recognised authority in the houseever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confrontthe amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at thesound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and satdown as before; with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dresstucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
-- My mother did not suffer her authority to pass from her without ashadow of protest.
-- I discovered afterwards that MissLavinia was an authority in affairs of the heart, by reason of therehaving anciently existed a certain Mr. Pidger, who played shortwhist, and was supposed to have been enamoured of her.
-- I will take care of them, under the authority Imentioned.'
-- Traddles, with a perceptible lengthening of his face, explained thathe had not been able to approach this subject; that it had shared thefate of Mr. Micawber's liabilities, in not being comprehended in theterms he had made; that we were no longer of any authority withUriah Heep; and that if he could do us, or any of us, any injury orannoyance, no doubt he would.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and af-fection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
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