In his 2,200-word retirement request General Sarath Fonseka says he was misled about his promotion this year to chief of defense staff, finding that he had "basically no authority."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Milton's arguing that there's no authority that can rightfully exist outside of the conscience of the individual.

弥尔顿争论到政府不能,正当的存在于个人良心之外。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And I'm no scientist and I'm no specialist in sort of empirical matters, and believe me, I'm no authority on quantum mechanics, our best theory of fundamental physics.

我不是科学家,也不是实证方面的专家,相信我,关于量子力学,我并没有发言权,那可是基础物理中最经典的理论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"And it looks like it is only going to get worse with no strong imposition of security or authority even after the election."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In terms of why universities need Muslim chaplains, when I was at NYU as an undergrad, we had no central authority to figure.

就大学为什么需要穆斯林教士而言，当我还是纽约大学的学生时，我们没有一个核心领导。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So we have to come up with some kind of a global deal." Analysts say there is no internationally recognized authority at the border of Gaza and whatever steps are taken to provide security will have to involve the Palestinian Authority reconciling or at least cooperating with Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is no protection for the freedom of weaker individuals, or those who question the authority of the most powerful.

这对于弱者是没有任何保护的,对于那种不畏强权的人也是一样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The emphasis on the individual is just another way of saying, again unlike Aristotle, that no one has natural authority over anyone else.

个体的重点在于,与亚里士多德所说不同，没有人拥有高于他人的自然权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yet, the authority of Aristotle obviously no longer has quite the power that it once did.

但亚里士多德的权威明显地,已不再拥有昔日力道。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But the crucial thing hasn't yet happened, because after all, in all of these accounts, even that of Hegel, there is no doubt about the authority of consciousness to think what it thinks.

但重要的事情仍未发生，因为毕竟刚刚讲过的所有思想，甚至是黑格尔的，也没有,质疑意识思考所思之物的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选