In the final analysis, the merits of the exam system outweigh its demerits.

最后，考试的好处要多余它的坏处。

By these days it was a demerit to be muscular.

到这个时代，肌肉发达乃是个缺陷。

Quote “sugar” comes in various forms, the relative merits or demerits of which scientists are still debating.

糖有多种形式，科学家还在讨论它的优缺点。

And you can dip below with demerits and stuff.

你可以用缺点和东西低于。

Officials caught interfering in court cases are going to face demerits and public shaming if caught trying to manipulate or pressure judges.

试图操控法官或向法官施压来干预司法案件的官员将被通报追责。

The merits or demerits of his literature had little to do with his results except when they led to adversity.

他的文学作品的优劣与他的结果几乎有关系，除非它们导致了逆境。

A quorum of Adirondack chairs is about to let me know they're not… they're about to censor me, I think, not with… or give me some demerits.

法定人数的达克椅子会让我知道他们不是… … 他们要审查我，我想，不是… … 或者给我一些记过。

But if it should appear, on examination, to be at least as fallible as intellect, its greater subjective certainty becomes a demerit, making it only the more irresistibly deceptive.

但是，如果经过检验，它看起来至少像智力一样容易犯错，那么它更大的主观确定性就成了缺点，只会使它更具不可抗拒的欺骗性。

In surveys and commentaries over the centuries he has generally not fared well in the popular imagination or amongst professional historians assessing the relative merits and demerits of his rule.

在几个世纪以来的调查和评论中，他在大众想象中或在评估他统治的相对优点和缺点的专业历史学家中普遍表现不佳。

The young man was relieved from the awkwardness of making any further protestations of his own demerits, by an exclamation from Chingachgook, and the attitude of riveted attention assumed by his son.

Chingachgook 的一声惊呼，以及他儿子所表现出的全神贯注的态度，让这个年轻人不再为自己的过失做出任何进一步的抗议而感到尴尬。

" But why didn't God create a world free from suffering and misery at the beginning when there was neither merit nor demerit in the individual to determine his actions" ?

“但是，个人既有优点也有缺点来决定他的行为时，上帝为什么不在一开始就创造一个有痛苦和苦难的世界”？

" Am I right in thinking that it means that the soul passes from body to body in an endless course of experience occasioned by the merit or demerit of previous works" ?

“我是否认为这意味着灵魂在无休止的经验过程中从一个身体传递到另一个身体，这是由先前作品的优点或缺点引起的”？