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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I am not a great authority on literary questions, but I certainly do hold that Russian literature is not Russian, ex-cept perhaps Lomonosoff, Pouschkin and Gogol.'
-- This lady posed as the patroness of literary people, and she certainly had succeeded in obtaining pensions for a few of them, thanks to her influence with those in authority on such matters.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once I tried to induce the Beast Folk to hunt him, but I lacked the authority to make them co-operate for one end.
-- I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought Han-nah was overdoing the authority business, and your mother ought to know.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.
-- In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
-- Whence he came in a mannerly world like this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced himself to be linked with Ahab's peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows, but it might have been even authority over him; all this none knew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so for from being denied the advantages of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer-time, and there permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to be under the exclusive patronage and protection of the powers of wickedness, and an article direct from the manufactory of the very Devil himself.
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
-- It wouldn't be proper for the maids to see me in this state, sir; I should never have any more authority with them if they did.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
-- cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; 'and I am persuaded that when sanc-tioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable.'
-- You will not, I hope, consider me as showing any disrespect to your family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pre-tensions to your daughter's favour, without having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf.
-- 'That is not very likely; our authority was too good.'
-- There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily re-jected.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This indeed was, as I said, an excursion of his spirits, which were yet agitated by the sense of his loss, and was farther than he could have authority to go.
-- But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself be-gan to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
-- I let them know that by my direction the ship had been seized; that she lay now in the road; and they might see by-and-by that their new captain had received the reward of his villainy, and that they would see him hanging at the yard-arm; that, as to them, I wanted to know what they had to say why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my commission they could not doubt but I had authority so to do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood was a man of authority and some fine feeling, and it irritated him excessively to find himself surrounded more and more by a world upon which he had no hold, and of which he had a lessening understanding.
-- When, in addition, a sharp temper was manifested, and to the process of shouldering him out of his authority was added a rousing intellectual kick, such as a sneer or a cynical laugh, he was unable to keep his temper.
-- She had no special evidence wherewith to justify herself--the knowledge of something which would give her both authority and excuse.
-- She little knew the trivial authority of this individual, or that had there been a vacancy an actor would have been sent on from New York to fill it.
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