Contingency authority

contingency [kən'tɪndʒənsi]

n. 意外事故，偶发事件;可能性，偶然性;[审计]意外开支;

con共同+ting接触+ency表名词→两件事接触→两车相撞→意外事故

authority [ə'θɔrəti]

n. 权威;权力;学术权威;[复数]当权者;

author作者+ity名词后缀 → 权力，威信

She's coming over this morning to help me with my math.

她今天早晨要过来帮我补习数学。

Good medicine tastes bitter.

良药苦口。

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，