MERIT

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Traducere în limba română

merit I. substantiv

1. merit; preţ, răsplată; recompensă meritată (adesea pl.);

according to their merit s după meritele lor;

he makes a merit of îşi face un merit din, se mândreşte cu.

2. plural merit; demnitate, rang.

3. merit, valoare, calitate, excelenţă, eminenţă;

a poet of merit un poet de valoare.

4. calitate, însuşire, proprietate; (jur.) pl. aspecte bune si rele (într-o problemă);

to discuss a proposal on its merit s a discuta avantajele şi dezavantajele unei propuneri; a cântări toate aspectele unei propuneri;

to judge on the merits of the case a judeca fondul chestiunii.

5. (jur.) pl. temei, temeinicie, îndreptăţire (a unei plângeri sau pledoarii);

he has the merits susţine o teză care este bine întemeiată;

considering the merits are with the defendant având în vedere temeiurile apărării.

merit II. verb tranzitiv

a merita, a fi demn / vrednic de.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Captain Wentworth, with five-and-twenty thousand pounds, and as high in his profession as merit and activity could place him, was no longer nobody.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

What with her dress; what with the air and sun; what with being made so much of; what with this, that, and the other; her merits really attracted general notice.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There was no merit in it.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Or you, sir, for you seem to me to be a man who would do ill to trust to your own merits.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because your merit cries out upon myself, I have been trying to do it away.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

There is no merit in such goodness.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Any further definition of his merits must be unnecessary; the most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

But I enjoyed friends, dear not only through habit and association, but from their own merits; and wherever I am, the soothing voice of my Elizabeth and the conversation of Clerval will be ever whispered in my ear.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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