the powers that be

"The Powers that Be seem to be satisfied, " he said.

“老大似乎挺满意的啊，”他说。

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？

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。

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。

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。

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。

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？。

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。

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。

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。

Whenever we want to have a party in public areas we have to ask permission from the powers that be.

不论什么时候我们在公共场所聚会，都要向当局申请批准。

Their aim seems to be to drag out the case while the powers-that-be decide what to do.

他们似乎意在拖延此案，真正决定案情的还是当权者。

It helps, even if often only as an encouragement to us, rather than as an argument convincing the powers that be.

即便它往往只是一种对我们的鼓励，那也是对我们的帮助，而不光是说服掌权者的一个证据。

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。

A top journalist in Niger was just thrown into prison last September for annoying the powers that be.

9月份尼日一名顶尖的记者才被抓入监牢，因为触怒了当权者。

As you watch me wander, curse the powers that be.

当你看我漫步时诅咒那力量。

And rather than investing billions in reducing carbon emissions, you'd much prefer the powers that be invested in mosquito nets.

比起把几十亿美元投在减少碳排放上，你可能更愿意多买几顶蚊帐。

The results of another poll must have been even more alarming to the powers that be.

另一项民意调查，对当权者来说，更加令人担忧。

Forget about the "powers that be" : merely the information that Google is gathering today would make Big Brother envious.

不谈掌权者，仅google蒐集的信息就足够“老大哥”嫉妒的了。

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

在上有权柄的、人人当顺服他.因为没有权柄不是出于神的.凡掌权的都是神所命的。