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However, in real life, to be able to be a monastic who can shake off all worldly concerns requires a lot of merits and wisdom!

然而，在现实生活中，有资格成为一名能够摆脱一切尘世困扰的和尚是需要大量的功德和智慧的！

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They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live.

他们闲聊伦敦与巴黎作为居住地各自相对的优点。

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He will go to the central state of Iowa on Thursday, to try to convince a deeply divided country of the plan's merits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

The natural desire for fame seated in the breast of every true scholar usually pushes him to make haste by the readiest way of publishing and divulging conceived merits.

每个真正的学者本质上都极度渴望成名,这使得他们匆匆发表那些,还未成形的文章。

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"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

It is one of the merits of this book that it lets the facts speak for themselves.

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Thanks to Mr Mbeki's deft backroom manoeuvring, the unions are being persuaded of the merits of private ownership.

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Whatever one may think of the merits of female careerism, how exactly is Jones's message "the opposite" of Sandberg's and Zeithaml's?

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