She was not rendered formidable by silence; but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone as marked her self-importance, and brought Mr. Wickham immediately to Elizabeth's mind;

她吓人的地方倒不是默不作声，而是她出言吐语时声调总是那么高高在上，自命不凡，这叫伊丽莎白立刻想起了韦翰先生的话。

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The Torah probably reached a fixed and authoritative status first, then the books of the Prophets and finally the Writings.

律法》可能是最早固定了权威地位的，然后是《先知书》再是《文集》

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It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

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So, I went to go look up the authoritative source on this, and so I looked this up, and I want to give you a sense of what the truth is.

这样，我查阅了与此相关的权威资料，查到了这些，我想给你们一种对于事实真相的认知感。

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Museum officials said that for the opening exhibit, they didn't want to present a single, authoritative voice of a curator or historian but rather acknowledge that events of Sept. 11 were witnessed by millions of people around the globe who watched the repeated broadcasts of the footage on television.

WSJ: 9/11 Museum Exhibit Will Really Talk to Visitors

From a technical standpoint, CloudFlare offers authoritative DNS, a function of the domain name system that Web sites use to identify themselves on the Internet, with a twist.

FORBES: How CloudFlare's Free DDoS-Protection Service Is Disrupting the Multibillion Dollar Computer Security and Content Delivery Markets

This is a rare treat: an authoritative business book that is also a rollicking good read.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction