I do not claim to be an authority.

我并不宣称自己是权威人士。

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So I do not claim to be an authority.

所以我并不宣称自己是权威人士。

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He fancied himself to be an authority.

他自认为是一个权威。

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That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

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The great Milton can be invoked here because he has already been established as an authority.

伟大的弥尔顿在这里之所以被引用,是因为他已经确立了他的权威。

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It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

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