| 词汇 | demerit |
| 释义 | demeritWord family noundemeritadjectivedemeritorious School de·mer·it /diːˈmerɪt/ noun [countableC] 1 formalGOOD POINT OR CHARACTERISTIC a bad quality or feature of something 缺点，短处 demerit of The merits and demerits (=the good and bad qualities) of this argument have been explored. 对这一论点的优缺点已经作了探讨。 2. American EnglishAmESES a mark showing that a student has behaved badly at school 过失〔学生在校行为不良的记录〕 → merit Examples from the Corpus demerit• With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned.• And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill, not with its legal technicalities.• You get demerits if you miss a meeting or come late to dinner without calling beforehand.• We sort of kept this demerit scoreboard for the last eight years, until we ran out of space. |
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