Their only merit is that for the first time I had come to write what I really meant, just according to my pleasure.

它们唯一的价值，就是头一次我能够随我意愿，写我真想写的东西。

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Everything they see for the first time is elementary to their sense of beauty and creativity; they see only merit and excellence in the world until educated otherwise.

孩子们初次见到的东西对于他们是形成美感以及创造力的基础。 在接受相关教育之前，他们应当只会看到世上美好的事物。

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He just did his job in a matter-of-fact way and was not to be interested in gaining merit, but only in avoiding making mistakes.

他在工作上进取心不大，常常是不求有功，但求无过。

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Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

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But, he's quick to point out, only merit will determine whether those viewers will stay.

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Mr Rembar was able to argue against the banning of the book by claiming that it not only had literary merit but moral value as well.

ECONOMIST: Charles Rembar

Server consolidation is only the most obvious merit of virtualisation, however.

ECONOMIST: Virtualisation