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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile, she resolved against seeing Harriet. It would do neither of them good, it would do the subject no good, to be talking of it farther. She was resolved not to be convinced, as long as she could doubt, and yet had no authority for opposing Harriet's confidence.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She fed those convicts condemned to penal servitude for life, and her authority was recognized among them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an ac-cusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did recall a few things and she spoke to Prissyrapidly, authority in her voice.
-- Galvanized by the authority in her voice, Pork approached the wagon and fumbled at the backboard.
-- "Katie Scarlett," said Gerald, the first note of authority she had heard in his voice since her return, "that is enough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
-- The strange gentleman, with an air of authority not to be disputed, and with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us that would effectually do for each individual if he chose to disclose it, left the back of the settle, and came into the space between the two settles, in front of the fire, where he remained standing, his left hand in his pocket, and he biting the forefinger of his right.
-- This practical authority confused me very much by saying I had the arm of a blacksmith.
-- The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.
-- "This is an authority to him to pay you that money, to lay out at your irresponsible discretion for your friend.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence ren-ders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
-- I happened rightly to conjecture, that these were sent for orders to some person in authority upon this occasion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
-- Therefore, though without any other authority than I have given you, and even without the knowledge of any other person than yourself and myself, I ask you to depart from this place to-night, under an obligation never to return to it.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, if this were true, away with the theories of Sir Humphry Davy; away with the authority of the parchment of Arne Saknussemm; the wonderful pretensions to discovery on the part of my uncle--and to our journey!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as a matter of fact, it was some old impression of authority on her own mind or soul that she could not get rid of.
-- He had that curious kind of protective authority she obeyed at once.
-- No, it was stupid, dead-handed high-er authority that made the army dead: absolutely fool-dead.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office.
-- The speaker was the tall Swiss belonging to the church, and he brought something of the authority of the church into the discussion especially as the devil was in question.
-- It had been mentioned at the Daybreak, she remarked, on the authority of the journals, that he had been kept in prison for his own safety.
-- 'Man!I justify myself by the authority of these Books,' she cried, with stern emphasis, and appearing from the sound that followed to strike the dead-weight of her arm upon the table.
-- The noble Refrigerator assented; but added that if William Barnacle and Tudor Stiltstalking, when they came over to one another and formed their ever-memorable coalition, had boldly muzzled the newspapers, and rendered it penal for any Editor-person to presume to discuss the conduct of any appointed authority abroad or at home, he thought the country would have been preserved.
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