merit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 价值, 优点, 功绩; vt. 应收, 值得，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I neither want any thanks, nor merit any,' was the care-less rejoinder.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I jumped the highest; but in this world merit seldom meets its reward.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky was himself the same, and regarded it as a great merit to be so.
-- In reply Snetkov spoke of the trust the noblemen of the province had placed in him, the affection they had shown him, which he did not deserve, as his only merit had been his attachment to the nobility, to whom he had devoted twelve years of service.
-- Levin said that the French had carried conventionality further than anyone, and that consequently they see a great merit in the return to realism.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The medal 芒聙娄 well, the medal of course was sold long ago, hm 芒聙娄 but the certificate of merit is in her trunk still and not long ago she showed it to our landlady.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I have any merit it is consistency.'
-- Whispersreach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn'tstare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones- forJones!a boy of no merit whatever!The gulf between me and MissShepherd widens.
-- And here, in the very first stage, I was supplanted by a shabbyman with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like alivery stable, and being able to walk across me, more like a fly thana human being, while the horses were at a canter!
-- I may claim the merit of having originated the suggestion that thewill should be looked for in the box.
-- I then put it to Miss Mills, to say whether she considered that therewas or was not any practical merit in the suggestion I had beenanxious to make, concerning the accounts, the housekeeping, andthe Cookery Book?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought it would be an excellent match; and only too palpably de-sirable, natural, and probable, for her to have much merit in planning it.
-- There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr.
-- There was merit in every drawing in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same.
-- What!think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend!Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own!I wonder you should think it possible for me to have such feelings.
-- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he ap-peared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind which she was always used to acknowledge in him; for with all the high opinion of himself, which she had often laid to his charge, she had never before for a moment supposed it could make him un-just to the merit of another.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which prom-ised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime as-cribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made it a powerful merit in herself, and a strong reproach against Joe, that she wore this apron so much.
-- For, though it includes what I proceed to add, all the merit of what I proceed to add was Joe's.
-- There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began with compliments on my liberty; said 'he might pre-tend to some merit in it;' but, however, added, 'that if it had not been for the present situation of things at court, per-haps I might not have obtained it so soon.
-- This was always the office of some grave trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in the court, when Glumdalclitch happened to be out of order; for I soon began to be known and esteemed 137among the greatest officers, I suppose more upon account of their majesties' favour, than any merit of my own.
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I have acquired an interest in hearing of your instructive experiences, and can scarcely hear enough of them, I claim no merit for that, since I believe it is a general sentiment.'
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