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.

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，这使他们在中国这个奉行超达尔文主义的经环境中处于不利地，相比之下，本土雇员更愿意做老板或客户需要的任何事情。

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

这方法让我创造了家具有独特思想的经营领导层的公司。以种能够获得独特成就的独特方式运营。

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.

你的成就造就了你。

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，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.

还有块很大的绊脚石是，许多人相信职场中奉行的是“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，让它成为个唯才是举的地方。

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。