merit
n. 优点, 功绩, 价值, 功过, 真相 vt. 值得 vi. 应受
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教材释义与例句
优点，价值；功绩；功过
值得
应受报答
释义与例句
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A claim to commendation or a reward.
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功绩
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A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
可数 不可数For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
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Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
可数 不可数His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
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The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
福德
不可数 宗教 可数to acquire or make merit
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Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
不可数 法律 可数Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.
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The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
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To deserve, to earn.
及物Her performance merited wild applause.
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To be deserving or worthy.
不及物They were punished as they merited.
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To reward.
废旧 罕用 及物
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词源
From Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right; deserving, meritorious”), perfect passive participle of mereō (“to deserve, earn, obtain, merit; to earn a living”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot, assign”). The English word is probably cognate with Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “component, part; portion, share; destiny, fate, lot”) and cognate with Old Occitan merit.
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