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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis the merit of the animal!They come from the shores of Narrangansett Bay, in the small province of Providence Plantations, and are celebrated for their hardihood, and the ease of this peculiar movement; though other horses are not unfrequently trained to the same.'
-- 'It is but too true, that after leading you into danger by my heedlessness, I have not even the merit of guarding your pillows as should become a soldier.'
-- demanded the veteran, sternly; 'does he make a merit of having captured a scout, with a note from headquarters?
-- Mak-ing a merit of necessity, the young man took the veteran by the arm, and followed in the footsteps of the Indians and the scout, who had already begun to retrace the path which conducted them to the plain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not advance it as a merit to be sensitive and brave, but it is my character.
-- In my sinfulness I merit bitter disappointment, and I accept it.'
-- So it had come to pass successively, first, that several distinguished ladies had been frightfully shocked; then, that portfolios of his performances had been handed about o' nights, and declared with ecstasy to be perfect Claudes, perfect Cuyps, perfect phaenomena; then, that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity, 'Do you know, there appears to me to be really immense merit in that work?'
-- There is no merit in being that,' said Little Dorrit.
-- It may be a vice, it may be a virtue, but adoration of female beauty and merit constitutes three parts of my character, madam.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The reward of merit for a magnanimous March,' as Laurie announced with a flourish.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- In short, after some more examination, and a great deal more conversation, a neighbouring magistrate was readily induced to take the joint bail of Mrs. Maylie and Mr. Losberne for Oliver's appearance if he should ever be called upon; and Blathers and Duff, being rewarded with a couple of guineas, returned to town with divided opinions on the subject of their expedition: the latter gentleman on a mature consideration of all the circumstances, inclining to the belief that the burglarious attempt had originated with the Family Pet; and the former being equally disposed to concede the full merit of it to the great Mr. Conkey Chickweed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To yield readily easily to the PERSUASION of a friend is no merit with you.'
-- But, my dearest Jane, you cannot seriously imagine that because Miss Bingley tells you her brother greatly admires Miss Darcy, he is in the smallest degree less sensible of YOUR merit than when he took leave of you on Tuesday, or that it will be in her power to persuade him that, instead of being in love with you, he is very much in love with her friend.'
-- The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appear-ance of merit or sense.
-- Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of SOME amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bing-ley, was incomprehensible.
-- There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pret-ty much.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
-- It was contrary to every doctrine of hers that difference of fortune should keep any couple asunder who were attracted by resemblance of disposition; and that Elinor's merit should not be acknowledged by every one who knew her, was to her comprehension impossible.
-- "What magnificent orders would travel from this family to London," said Edward, "in such an event!What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops!You, Miss Dashwood, would give a general commission for every new print of merit to be sent you and as for Marianne, I know her greatness of soul, there would not be music enough in London to content her.
-- Supported by the conviction of having done nothing to merit her present unhappiness, and consoled by the belief that Edward had done nothing to forfeit her esteem, she thought she could even now, under the first smart of the heavy blow, command herself enough to guard every suspicion of the truth from her mother and sisters.
-- Happy had it been for her, if her regard for Edward had depended less on his own merit, than on the merit of his nearest relations!For then his brother's bow must have given the finishing stroke to what the ill-humour of his mother and sister would have begun.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not seem apt at conversation, but he had the merit of being well dressed and wholly courageous.
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