喜樂美語
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    nB2

    /ˌloʊkəl əˈθɔːrəti/

    The official group of people who run the government of one town, city, or area, and who look after local services there, such as schools.

    地方政府（地方當局）

    複數 local authorities

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Think of government sitting on two levels. One level is far away and decides for the whole country. The other sits in your own town and decides about this street, this school, this week's rubbish collection. A local authority is the nearer level: a body of people, never one official, whose power stops at the edge of one area. That is why the word local is doing so much work here, and why the term usually turns up next to the school, the housing, the licence, the bins.

可以想成政府分成兩層。一層在遠處，替全國作決定；另一層就在你住的城鎮，管這條街、這所學校、這星期的垃圾。local …更多收起可以想成政府分成兩層。一層在遠處，替全國作決定；另一層就在你住的城鎮，管這條街、這所學校、這星期的垃圾。local authority 指的是比較近的那一層。它是一群人組成的機關，不是某一位官員，而且權力只到這個地區的邊界為止。local 這個字在這裡承擔了最重要的訊息，所以這個詞旁邊常常出現學校、住宅、許可證、垃圾這些字。

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

local authoritynoun

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    An administrative body in local government, such as a city council.

    • Some preliminary legal arrangements were made, but the scheme proceeded no further, as the various local authorities concerned were unwilling to speculate public funds on what was, even at that date, a will o' the wisp.
    • Controversy has surrounded some of the schemes, which local authorities and commuters have seen as putting money-making before travel.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。