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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The index has slipped below its 200-day moving average before this year--in March and briefly in June--but it has not sliced through this level of long-term support with such authority.

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