1. But the claim made by a local authority to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique.
    但某地当局为打捞一只焙制馅饼的盘子提出索赔，倒是件新鲜的事儿。

2. The leader must be a person of authority.
    领袖必须是有权威的人.

3. The disgraced official was divested of all authority.
    该失势官员失去了一切权力.

4. To give skin care scientific authority, beauty counters have now stolen a thin covering of respectability from the hospital clinic.
    为了使皮肤护理具有科学的权威，销售美容品的柜台现已从医院诊所盗用了体面的外表。

5. There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts have authority over our heads.
    它与感情掌管头脑的说法一样并无创见。

6. He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer´s money on a cheque on which its customer´s signature has been forged.
    他把自己签名的样本交给银行，对此有一条非常严格的规定：银行没有任何权利或理由把储户的钱让伪造储户的支票取走。

7. Authority is vested in the people.
    权力属於人民.

8. She is not content with her vicarious authority.
    她不甘心只拥有一个代理的职权。

9. Most of it came from a secret fund that had been placed under his sole authority and that was supposed to be used to pay spies and conduct secret activities against the Irish Republican Army.
    其中大部分钱来自一项由他单独管辖的秘密基金。该基金本应用来支付间谍费用，以及开展对抗爱尔兰共和军的秘密活动。

10. Certainly middle-class audiences did; the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who revolted against authority,
    中产阶级当然这样认为；劳动阶级倒更有可能为这样一个反抗权势的角色拍手喝彩：