当局，统治者

媒介与权势（书名）

the Lower Rhine───莱茵河下游

the Lord's table───主桌

the Lower Karoo───下卡鲁

the lower paid───低收入者

the lower ranks───下级

the top of the tree───树的顶端

the lower vertebrates───低等脊椎动物

the sooner the better───adj.愈早愈好

thermal power station───热电站

Indeed it is high time the powers that be (and you know who you are) started to revisit the concept of the user experience.───实际上，也到了这些行业巨头们要重新考虑用户体验的概念的时候了。

The powers that be may keep us from building a house just where we want to.───当局可能会阻止我们随意建房屋。

Both failures demonstrated that all-too-common activity that constitutes much of modern reporting: stenography for the powers that be.───这两个失败案例都表明构成大部分现代报道的普遍活动是对权力的速记。

The powers that be say it must be done that way, and so it must.───当权者说必须那样做, 所以就必须那样做.

For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.───因为没有权柄不是出于神的。凡掌权的都是神所命的。

The decision is in the hands of the powers that be.───决定权操在当局手中.

The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether.───掌权的，在这件事中即独立的电视协会，干脆禁播了那则电视广告。

The powers that be are assessing the situation.───当权者正在评估局势.

Um, I still think that, that maybe the powers that be want it probably as a smoke screen.

The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether.

The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience.

It's up to the powers that be to decide what should be done next.

He was waiting for the powers that be to decide what his next job would be.

The powers that be are still trying to decide what should be done.

Why should the powers that be want to ruin that?

The powers that be don't want the media to get hold of the story.

Could the powers that be, or anyone else who knows, possibly get him on?