A European investment banker says turtles often cling to quaint Western notions like transparency, meritocracy and ethics, which puts them at a disadvantage in China's hyper-Darwinian economy, where locals are more willing to do whatever the boss or client wants.

一位欧洲投行家说海龟常常锢于西方理念，比如透明、经营管理、道德，这使他们在中国这样一个奉行超达尔文主义的经环境中处于不利地位，相比之下，本土雇员更愿意做老板或客户需要的任何事。

This approach led me to create a company with a unique idea meritocracy, operating in a unique way that produced unique successes.

这一方法让我创造了一家具有独特思想的经营领导层的公司。以一种能够获得独特就的独特方式运营。

The author's greatest odium, though, is directed at meritocracy.

然而，作者最憎恨的是优绩主义。

When run properly, construction sites are true meritocracies.

正常运营时，建筑工地是真正唯才是举的地方。

Opportunity, meritocracy, the self-made person, hard work.

机遇、任人唯贤、自力更生、努力工作。

The message of the meritocracy is you are what you accomplish.

你的就造就了你。

Now, I thought Britain was supposed to be a meritocracy.

现在，我认为英国应该是一个精英统治的国家。

Like other critics of meritocracy, Mr Curran has a point-until you consider the alternatives.

与其他批评优绩主义的人一样，柯伦的观点是有道理的--直到你考虑了其他选择。

One stumbling block is that many people believe that the workplace is largely a meritocracy, which means we look at individuals, not groups, and determine that differences in outcomes must be based on merit, not gender.

还有一块很大的绊脚石是，许多人相信职场中奉行的是“一切看实力”的游戏规则，意思是我们只看个人而非群体的表现，而且导致结果不同的决定因素必然是实力而非性别。

I don't like quotas either; they run counter to my belief in meritocracy, government by the capable.

我也不喜欢各种定额，它们其与我精英管理的理念背道而驰。

This company culture is about meritocracy.

这家公司的文化是精英主义。

I mean, we like to believe the film industry is a meritocracy, right?

我的意思是， 我们喜欢相信电影业是精英统治， 对吧？

Meritocracy is corrosive of the common good.

精英主义腐蚀了共同利益。

But the pressures of the meritocracy can sometimes put this love on a false basis.

但任人唯贤的压力有时会使这种爱建立在错误的基础上。

I wanted to make an idea meritocracy.

我想建立一个创意精英制度。

Let us not underestimate what it will take to create that great meritocracy.

让我们不要低估创造这种伟大的任人唯贤制度需要付出的努力。

I didn’t see the world as a meritocracy.

我不认为这个世界是任人唯贤的。

It's supposed to be a meritocracy, for sure.

这理应是一个靠实力说话的体制，毫无疑问。

And all I wanted was, you know, for it to be a meritocracy.

而我所希望的只是，你知道的，让它为一个唯才是举的地方。

He pointed out the historical alternatives to meritocracy.

他指出了历史上非唯才是举的替代方案。