be an authority

基本解釋

So I do not claim to be an authority.
所以我并不宣稱自己是權威人士。
He fancied himself to be an authority.
他自認為是一個權威。
And as authorities, the outbound links they choose to make carry that much more value (you don't get to be an authority in your field by randomly linking out to irrelevant, junk sites).
而作為權威網站，在選擇網站作為自己的導出鏈接時，也會選擇更有價值的（如果你想成為業(yè)界權威網站，就不能隨隨便便鏈接到不相關的垃圾網站上）。

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?"
即是說，如果文學有緣由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我們會問，“作者是誰？“
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The great Milton can be invoked here because he has already been established as an authority.
偉大的彌爾頓在這里之所以被引用,是因為他已經確立了他的權威。
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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.
首先我們如何知道作者在那兒，其次，決定文本意義的時候,如果作者只是一種功能。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節(jié)選

Becoming a thought leader is regularly the most effective way to be recognized as an authority in your field.
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