The argument seemed to have considerable merit.
这个论点似乎有相当大的价值。
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？
"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。
History affords us lessons that merit attention.
历史给我们提供了值得注意的借鉴。
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。
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。
Selection is based solely on merit.
选拔唯贤。
Should promotion be based on merit or seniority?
提拔一个人应当看业绩，还是看资历？
Wang's courage won him several honors, including a National May Day Labor Medal and 11 Citations of Merit.
王的勇气为他赢得了许多荣誉，包括一枚全国五一劳动奖章和11项嘉奖。
Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks, She was given the honor—Order of Merit, becoming the first woman to receive it.
维多利亚女王给她写了一封信表示感谢，她被授予荣誉勋章——功绩勋章，成为第一个获得该勋章的女性。
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。
That's one reason Allegheny College doesn't plan to drop merit aid entirely.
这也是阿勒格尼学院不打算完全取消奖学金的原因之一。
Artistic merit scholarships require that applicants excel in a given artistic area.
艺术奖学金要求申请者在某一特定艺术领域有突出表现。
Now, Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., says it will phase out merit scholarships altogether.
现在，纽约州克林顿市的汉密尔顿学院表示将逐步取消所有的奖学金。
"We're playing the merit game," acknowledges Tom Lancaster, associate dean for undergraduate education.
“我们在玩比谁更优异的游戏。”负责本科教育的副院长汤姆·兰卡斯特承认道。
To earn a Plant Science merit badge, a scout can choose between agronomy, horticulture, or field botany.
要获得植物科学奖章，侦察员可以在农学、园艺学或野外植物学之间进行选择。
"Board members of public companies should be chosen solely on the basis of merit and experience," he says.
“上市公司的董事会成员应该完全根据业绩和经验来挑选。”他说。
Not all colleges offer merit aid; generally, the more selective a school is, the less likely it is to do so.
不是所有的大学都会提供奖学金；一般来说，越挑剔的学校越不可能这样做。
Studies show merit aid also tends to benefit disproportionately students who could afford to enroll without it.
研究表明，绝大部分奖学金也逐渐流入那些没有奖学金也有能力支付学费的学生囊中。
In social sciences, this is known as examining "near misses" and "narrow wins" in areas where merit is subjective.
在社会科学中，人们称之为在主观评价的领域考察“侥幸”和“险胜”现象。
Between 1995-96 and 2003-04, institutional merit aid alone increased 212%, compared with 47% for need-based grants.
在1995-96年到2003-04年间，仅机构绩效奖学金一项就增长了212%，而基于需求的奖学金增长了47%。
Academic merit scholarships are based on students' grades, GPA and overall academic performance during high school.
学业优秀奖学金是根据学生的成绩、GPA和高中期间的整体学习表现来评定的。
But merit aid, offered primarily by schools and states, is growing faster, both overall and at the institutional level.
但是，从总体上和大学层面上来看，主要由学校和州提供的奖学金增长速度变得更快。
If someone you know, like, and trust believes a radical idea, you are more likely to give it merit, weight, or consideration.
如果你认识、喜欢和信任的人相信一个全新的观点，你更有可能去赞扬它、重视它、思考它。
It would be nice if we all received automatic pay increases equal to our merit, but "nice" isn't a quality attributed to most organizations.
如果我们所有人自动增加的薪酬与我们的业绩相等，那当然很好，但这个“好”并不是大多数组织都具备的品质。
We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent".
我们开始相信，那些拥有更多教育荣誉勋章的人，那些在某个学校学科方面非常优秀的人是“聪明的”。
For rankings-conscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profits.
对于排名居中且有排名意识的学校来说，奖学金是用来招收顶尖学生并提高其学校学术收益的主要工具。
No current merit-aid recipients will lose their scholarships, but need-based aid alone will be awarded beginning with students entering in fall 2008.
目前的奖学金获得者不会失去他们的奖学金，但从2008年秋季开始，只会对学生发放助学金。
Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.
改革一直遭到强烈反对，最让人惊讶的可能是在教育业，其中的特许学校、学会和绩效工资都面临着持久的斗争。
But for rankings-conscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profits.
但对于排名居中且有排名意识的学校来说，奖学金主要是一种用来招募顶尖学生并提高其学校学术收益的工具。
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