名词权威; 权力; 学术权威; [复数]当权者

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.

e.g. This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections...
这给当局取消此次选举提供了借口。
e.g. The prison authorities have been criticised for not moving more quickly to end the protest by inmates.
监狱当局因没有尽快采取行动制止犯人抗议而受到批评。

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

e.g. ...the Health Education Authority...
卫生教育局
e.g. Any alterations had to meet the approval of the local planning authority.
任何改建都要取得当地规划机构的批准。

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

e.g. Local police chiefs should re-emerge as figures of authority and reassurance in their areas...
各地警察局局长应当重树其维护辖区安定的执法者形象。
e.g. The judge had no authority to order a second trial.
法官无权进行二次审判。

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

e.g. He had no natural authority and no capacity for imposing his will on others.
他天生缺乏威信，根本没有能力把他的意志强加于人。

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

e.g. The prison governor has refused to let him go, saying he must first be given authority from his own superiors.
监狱长拒绝释放他，说他首先必须得到上级官员的许可。

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.

e.g. He's universally recognized as an authority on Russian affairs.
他是公认的俄罗斯事务专家。

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.

e.g. I have it on good authority that there's no way this light can cause skin cancer.
我有来自权威人士的说法，这种光不可能引起皮肤癌。

名词一致; 舆论; 一致同意，合意

1. 一致看法;共识
A consensus is general agreement among a group of people.

e.g. The consensus amongst the world's scientists is that the world is likely to warm up over the next few decades...
世界各国科学家一致认为在未来几十年里地球有可能变暖。
e.g. The question of when the troops should leave would be decided by consensus.
部队应该何时撤离的问题将由大家共同决定。

不及物动词合作，配合，协助

动词合群; 互助; 结合

名词劝说，说服（力）; 信仰

1. 说服；劝说
Persuasion is the act of persuading someone to do something or to believe that something is true.

e.g. Only after much persuasion from Ellis had she agreed to hold a show at all...
埃利斯劝了她半天后她才同意办一场展览。
e.g. She was using all her powers of persuasion to induce the Griffins to remain in Rollway.
她在极力劝说格里芬斯一家留在罗尔威。

2. 信仰；信念
If you are of a particular persuasion, you have a particular belief or set of beliefs.

e.g. It is a national movement and has within it people of all political persuasions...
这是一场全国性运动，参加者的政治信仰各不相同。
e.g. Fortunately for me, my kids are of the persuasion that their failings are of their own making.
对我来说幸运的是,我的孩子们相信失败是他们自己造成的。

名词承诺，许诺; 委任，委托; 致力，献身; 承担义务

1. 信奉;忠诚
Commitment is a strong belief in an idea or system.

e.g. ...commitment to the ideals of Bolshevism.
对布尔什维克主义理想的信奉

2. 承诺;责任;义务
A commitment is something which regularly takes up some of your time because of an agreement you have made or because of responsibilities that you have.

e.g. I've got a lot of commitments...
我承担了很多责任。
e.g. Work commitments forced her to uproot herself and her son from Reykjavik.
她的工作迫使她和儿子从雷克雅未克搬走。

3. 承诺;许诺
If you make a commitment to do something, you promise that you will do it.

e.g. We made a commitment to keep working together...
我们承诺继续合作。
e.g. They made a commitment to peace.
他们承诺要维护和平。

4. 收监;送入医院
Commitment is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.

名词稀少; 不足，缺乏; 萧条

1. 缺乏;不足;稀少
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[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;e.g. ...an ever increasing scarcity of water.
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