名词

1. 当局;官方;当权者
The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.

2. 行政管理机构
An authority is an official organization or government department that has the power to make decisions.

3. 权力；权限；职权
Authority is the right to command and control other people.

4. 威信
If someone has authority, they have a quality which makes other people take notice of what they say.

5. （官方的正式）许可
Authority is official permission to do something.

6. （某一方面的）权威人士，专家
Someone who is an authority on a particular subject knows a lot about it.

7. 有可靠的消息来源
If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.

1. official permission or approval

e.g. authority for the program was renewed several times

Synonym: authorizationauthorisationsanction

2. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

e.g. he has the authority to issue warrants
deputies are given authorization to make arrests
a place of potency in the state

Synonym: authorizationauthorisationpotencydominancesay-so

3. freedom from doubt
belief in yourself and your abilities

e.g. his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular
after that failure he lost his confidence
she spoke with authority

Synonym: assuranceself-assuranceconfidenceself-confidencesureness

4. an authoritative written work

e.g. this book is the final authority on the life of Milton

5. an administrative unit of government

e.g. the Central Intelligence Agency
the Census Bureau
Office of Management and Budget
Tennessee Valley Authority

Synonym: agencyfederal agencygovernment agencybureauoffice

6. an expert whose views are taken as definitive

e.g. he is an authority on corporate law

7. (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others

e.g. the authorities have issued a curfew