authenticity

authent(author)-icity

n.確實; 真實  [the quality of being authentic]

authoritarian

author-itarian

n.獨裁主義者

a.獨裁主義者的  [Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom]

  ex. an authoritarian regime.

authorization

author-ization

n.授權  [permission or power granted by an authority; sanction.]

autobiography

auto-bio-graphy

n.自傳

autocracy & autocrat

autocracy

auto-cracy ;sole power from Gk.

n.獨裁;專制政治

n.獨裁政府

   ps. government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.

   ex.古中國的朝代

autocrat

n.獨裁者,專制君主

autonomy autonomous

autonomy

n.自治權 [ independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions]

  ex. the autonomy of the individual.

n.有自主權的國家

1623, from Gk. autonomia, noun of quality from autonomos "independent, living by one's own laws," from auto- "self" (comb. form) + nomos "custom, law" (see numismatics). Autonomous is recorded from 1800.

autonomous

adj.自治的;自主的

  ex. an autonomous legislature.

auxiliary

adj.輔助的 = ancillary

adj.預備的;後備的

  ex. The hospital has an auxiliary power system in case of a blackout.

available

adj.可得的

  ex. TV sets are available in any department stores.
  電視機在任何一家百貨公司裡都能買到。

avalanche

n.雪崩;山崩

n.突然來到的大量事物[(+of)]

  ex. We received an avalanche of inquiries.
  我們一下子收到了大批詢問信函。

[French; akin to Provençal lavanca, ravine, perhaps ultimately from Latin lābī, to slip.]

avant-garde

avant: 前鋒 garde=guard

n.(藝術界)先鋒,前衛派

the advance group in any field, esp. in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.

adj.前衛的

時髦的比較

fashionable adj.上流社會式的時髦

modish adj.前衛派式的時髦

stylish adj.個人風格式的時髦