Although in that article, I used the term 'authority' scarcely but some of the readers expressed reservation about 'authority'.

尽管我在其中只是少数几次用到“权威”一词，可有些读者还是对“权威”持有保留态度。

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Pantone, the world-renowned authority on colour, may have a "nude" shade, thereby conferring a certain official acceptability on all those magazines' usage of the term.

世界色彩权威机构Pantone可能已经在色卡里增加了裸色，如此，在所有杂志里被使用的“裸色”就得到了官方认可。

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More loosely, the term is used to refer to any external and unchallenged source of authority.

在更宽泛的意义上，该术语被用来指任何外部的、未受挑战的权威。

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In other words, not Lorenzo at all, but precisely princes who have or will achieve their authority through their own guile, their own force, or their own virtu, to use the famous Machiavellian term that I want to talk about later.

换句话说并非罗伦佐，而是那些已经或将会,透过其欺诈手段,获得职权的君王，透过其武力或，Virtu，夺权的君王，这是马奇亚维利著名的词汇,我稍后会谈到。

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