virtue/merit.导航词义：美德，品质

1. virtue:n. 美德，优秀品质.指某人性格中的好品质，为可数名词。

Among his many virtues are courtesy, courage and loyalty.

在他的许多美德中有谦虚、勇敢和忠诚。

In fact, truthfulness is not one of her virtues.

其实，她并不诚实。

2. merit:n. 优秀品质.指使某人或某物受赞扬或赞美的好品质，为不可数名词。

In his opinion, this proposal has some merit.

在他看来，这个提议有可取之处。

These candidates were selected solely on merit.

这些候选人都是凭才能被选拔出来的。

全部

1·The plan is entirely without merit.

这个计划毫无价值。《牛津词典》

2·The case does not merit further investigation.

这个案子不值得进一步调查。《牛津词典》

3·The argument seemed to have considerable merit.

这个论点似乎有相当大的价值。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?

这样重要的事情值得进行更高级别的讨论吧？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·It's of no great literary merit, he said, almost apologetically.

“它不具有重要的文学价值，”他几乎抱歉地说道。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·History affords us lessons that merit attention.

历史给我们提供了值得注意的借鉴。《新英汉大辞典》

7·Sell nothing that has unique artistic merit or scientific value.

不要出售任何具有独特艺术价值或科学价值的东西。

8·One school attributes English's great success to the sheer weight of its merit.

有一所学校把英语的巨大成功完全归功于它的优点。

9·Unfortunately the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，使用简单的定量指标来评估研究人员的价值的长期成本可能是相当大的。

10·Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，使用简单的量化指标来评估研究人员价值，其长期成本可能会相当大。

优点

1·One school attributes English's great success to the sheer weight of its merit.

有一所学校把英语的巨大成功完全归功于它的优点。

2·The merit of Working Longer, which focuses on America, is that it grasps this thorny issue.

“长时工作”的优点针对于美国社会就是它抓住了这一棘手问题的本质。

3·And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

尽管在写作中，没有什么东西可以称得上优点，但是“清晰”却是一个。

4·The merit of viewing the four as a tetrad rather than selecting only three to form a triangle is that it gives greater prominence to quality.

把这四个变量看成是四元的而不是选出三个组合成三角形，它的优点在于：它给质量上带来了很多显著的帮助。

5·Both of these environments have merit and value, so it is really a matter preference.

这两种环境都各有优点和价值，因此选择哪一种环境只是个人的偏好问题。

价值

1·The plan is entirely without merit.

这个计划毫无价值。《牛津词典》

2·The argument seemed to have considerable merit.

这个论点似乎有相当大的价值。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·It's of no great literary merit, he said, almost apologetically.

“它不具有重要的文学价值，”他几乎抱歉地说道。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Sell nothing that has unique artistic merit or scientific value.

不要出售任何具有独特艺术价值或科学价值的东西。

5·Unfortunately the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，使用简单的定量指标来评估研究人员的价值的长期成本可能是相当大的。

值得

1·The case does not merit further investigation.

这个案子不值得进一步调查。《牛津词典》

2·History affords us lessons that merit attention.

历史给我们提供了值得注意的借鉴。《新英汉大辞典》

3·At the end of this chapter we point out which of these areas we believe especially merit additional study.

本章的末尾，我们指出这些领域之中的一些尤其值得更多地进行研究。

4·Most PHP pages are fast enough - Better performance would be an advantage, but not enough of one to merit investment in new code.

大多数php页面已经足够快——更好的性能会是一种优势，但是还不值得对新代码进行投入。

5·Therefore, whether people are speaking or not, hand gestures merit our attention as a rich source of nonverbal behavior to help us understand the thoughts and feelings of others.

因此，不论说不说话，作为一种丰富的非语言行为的资源，手势都值得我们关注，它能帮助我们理解别人的思想和感情。

功绩

1·What we consider merit is the result of education, and greater education requires greater income.

我们所认为的“功绩”是教育的结果，并且更高一级的教育要求有更好的收入。

2·He bitterly alleges — with some merit, given his background — that the world has done him wrong, which gives him the right to do the world wrong.

他犀利地辩解——评论他的功绩——介绍他的背景——世界这样对待他是错误的，他有权力纠正这错误。

3·However, in western society (compared to societal perceptions in eastern cultures I've studied) the idea of individual merit is pushed so hard that teamwork, humility and fairness is often forgotten.

但是，在西方社会里(与我学习过的东方社会的社会理念相比较)，个人功绩一个概念被过分推崇了，以至于团队合作，谦逊，公平都被大家遗忘了。

4·He believed that rank should be based on merit and experience, not on nobility.

他认为军阶应根据功绩和经验而定，而不是凭借出身的高低。

5·He was standing on the basis of former plus personal excellence unremitting efforts, make this a verse in the content and form of double coordinates of the merit, finally categorized will never fade.

他是在前人的基础上再加上个人不懈的努力，使七律这一诗体在内容和形式的双重坐标中终于蔚为大观，其功绩永远不可磨灭。

功劳

1·I jumped the highest; but in this world merit seldom meets its reward.

我跳得最高；但在这个世界上，功劳难得有回报。

2·If I had some success, I think it is accidental, not to say that merit and performance into their own.

如果我有一些成绩的话，我想那也是偶然的，不要将功劳和业绩都说成自己的。

3·What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

我们所没有选择的东西，我们既不能认为是自己的功劳，也不是自己的过错。

4·His merit will get its reward.

他的功劳会得到报偿的。

5·It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-being, through no fault, and no merit, of my own.

我自己一直受到同代人的过分的赞扬和尊敬，这不是由于我自己的过错，也不是由于我自己的功劳，而实在是一种命运的嘲弄。

应受

1·I didn't merit such punishment.

我不应受这种惩罚。

功过

1·When I pass away I hope to merit three lines of small print in the Imperial gazette.

等到我去世时，我希望在帝国的公报上能登上三行小小的公告，提一下我的功过就行了。

(1)on its merits根据事物本身的优缺点；按照事情的是非曲直

(1)merit and demerit优缺点

(1)have the merits【法律】在诉讼中证明自己有理

(1)certificate of merit奖状

(1)merit pay绩效工资

(1)merit function优值函数；优化方程