1.当局
1.the people who control a situation. This expression usually shows that you do not agree with their decisions
1."The Powers that Be seem to be satisfied, " he said.
“老大似乎挺满意的啊，”他说。
2.How much will the powers that be screw with his vision?
破坏他的想象力的力量会有多大？
3.Even the powers that be are beginning to wake up to the power of the study abroad experience.
即使当权者也开始意识到留学的重要性。
4.I was all set to do it and I was thinking, "Aw man, " I was just going to impose upon the powers that be, and measure the speed of light.
当我决定给你们做这个实验的时候我很兴奋地在想，“老天”我只是想不断加强这方面的能力，来测量光速。
5.It happens in the heat of a game that you get over excitable, but the referees and the powers that be have got to react to it.
在比赛进行的如火如荼处于焦灼状态的时候发生这种事你会变得过于激动，但是裁判和执法官员已经做出了判罚。
6.The powers-that-be believed that the only appropriate form of birth control was celibacy.
所以，当权者们认为，唯一能够有效控制生育的办法就是禁欲。
7.However, that is just what the powers-that-be want you to believe, so as to leave them alone in their relentless pursuit of. . . what?
然而，那仅仅是想你相信的力量，以便让他们自己的不懈追求…什么？。
8.Without Twitter, the world might have known little more than a losing candidate accusing the powers that be of alleged fraud.
没有Twitter，全世界只不过知道一个失败的候选人指责被说成骗子的当权者。
9.The island of Hainan is the only province where the powers that be have embraced golf construction and then for tourism purposes only.
海南岛是唯一个以旅游为目的，政府批准兴建高尔夫球场的省份。
10.It was an appropriate title; the powers that be really did learn a lesson from the Prague Spring.
这是个很贴切的标题：政权的确从布拉格之春学到了一课。