"This is a tragic thing," "We came into this crisis without the authority and the tools necessary to contain the damage to the American economy posedby the very severe pressures working through the financial system."

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That is to say, when one can scarcely say the word "author" without thinking "authority," and one can definitely never say the word "authority" without thinking about the police.

意思就是说，当一个人说到“作者“,而想不到“权威“，或者一个人,在没想到警察的时候绝对不会想起“权威“这个字眼。

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He could not punish me now without risking his authority.

否则他无法惩罚我。

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The patriarchal stories are clearly not the work of the Deuteronomist, and these stories must have had very longstanding traditional authority if they were adopted without serious modification by the Deuteronomist redactor some modification, but not serious.

那些宗法故事显然不是预言师的作品，这些故事必然经过了传统权威的检验,如果他们是未经更改直接引用的话,由那些预言编写者,这里有一些改动，但不是太多。

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