放牧猫综合症想要把猫儿们放牧饲养基本上是不可能的，因为猫喜欢自己干自己的事情，不尊重权威力量。

Herding cats is almost impossible as they like to do their own thing and have little respect for authority.

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一项摧毁性的针对众议院的那个不负责任的预算法案的特别修正案将会令环保局对车辆排放的温室气体和固定污染源的监管失去权威力量。

One particularly destructive amendment to the house's irresponsible budget bill would strip the E.P.A. of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles and stationary sources.

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国会通过了一项摧毁性的针对白宫的特别修正案，认为所颁布的预算法案是不负责任的，因为这项预算法案会令环保局对车辆排放的温室气体和固定污染源的监管失去其权威力量。

One particularly destructive amendment to the house's irresponsible budget bill would strip the E. P. A. of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles and stationary sources.

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The kinds of authority established by the bogeys of tradition and custom and conservative tradition are not always distinguishable from the kinds of authority that are based on genuine strength.

由约定俗成的习俗的幻象以及,保守的传统建立的权威,和建立在真实力量上权威难以分辨。

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Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

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