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发音：[ˈmerɪt]
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例句：
- If you think something bears merits, you believe it possesses a good or admirable quality or property.
- The academy strives to create an environment where votes are based solely on the artistic and technical merits of the qualified films and achievements.
- After the huge victory for the clean energy industry, organizations like the Solar Energy Industry Association plan to focus more on selling the merits of clean energy projects to people affected by them.
- Marcus Freeman’s success will be entirely based on his own merit, not his skin color, and certainly not because his current employer notices that people of his skin color have endured hardships.
- Science is evaluated for its rigor and integrity by a peer-review process that decides the merits of science questions and approaches in making funding and publication decisions.
- Capitalism is all about fairly distributing wealth based on hard work and personal merit, which is why Jeff Bezos earns in 20 seconds what the median US worker makes in a year.
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解释：
- Merit这个单词当作名词使用，其表示“any admirable quality or attribute”这一含义，即“价值/优点/美德”，与value/virtue/advantage这些单词构成近义词。
- 除了作名词外，merit这个单词也可以用作动词，其表示“be worthy or deserving“这一含义，即“值得”，与deserve构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The company considered buying Twitter Inc earlier this year, but abandoned the pursuit last month amid investor concerns over the strategic merits and valuation of the deal.（该公司今年早些时候曾考虑收购Twitter公司，但由于投资者对该交易的战略价值和估值感到担忧，该公司上个月放弃了这一追求。）
–Business - Enthusiasts and industry employees have been debating the merits of a return to the Moon versus a Mars mission ever since President Obama set NASA’s space policy six years ago.（自从奥巴马总统六年前制定美国宇航局的太空政策以来，爱好者和行业员工一直在争论重返月球与火星任务的好处。）
–Science - After the huge victory for the clean energy industry, organizations like the Solar Energy Industry Association plan to focus more on selling the merits of clean energy projects to people affected by them.（在清洁能源行业取得巨大胜利之后，太阳能行业协会等组织计划更多地关注向受其影响的人们推销清洁能源项目的优点。）
–Technology - If the FDA commissioner or CDC director rejects or modifies the panels’ recommendations, which rarely occurs, the decision will merit close scrutiny and an accompanying strong justification.（如果FDA专员或CDC主任拒绝或修改小组的建议—这种情况很少发生，则该决定将值得仔细审查并附带强有力的理由。）
–Medicine - Ordinarily, a game between the first- and last-place teams in a division might not merit much attention, but there are untimely and unsettling concerns about Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott.（通常，分区中排名第一和排名最后的球队之间的比赛可能不值得太多关注，但如今却存在对达拉斯四分卫达克·普雷斯科特的不合时宜和令人不安的担忧。）
–Sports - A growing consensus intensifies among investors, regulators, and companies around the world that climate change poses substantial financial risks that merit additional clarity.（世界各地的投资者、监管机构和公司之间日益达成共识，即气候变化带来了巨大的金融风险，值得进一步澄清。）
–Business
