Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

  • -- William Temple 坦普尔

没有什么比习俗更能加强和巩固权威了;因为没有人轻易地不信任他和所有人一直以来所养成的习惯。

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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

我认为,历史学家和历史事件的分析者需要事件的现场目击者所提供的事实的权威性,他们把这些事件作为他们研究的主题。

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

我们需要阻止父母权威的侵蚀。