demerit
demerit 英 [di:ˈmerɪt] 美 [dɪˈmɛrɪt]
n. 缺点，短处；过失
名词复数:demerits
- A demerit is a mark for doing something wrong. Running in the hall at school might get you one demerit. Running in the hall naked could get you a demerit that will go down on your permanent record. Avoid!
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- n. 缺点，短处；过失
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1. However, the demerit is that it can take an awfully long time to reach a consensus the larger the number of people involved.
但是，缺点是为达成共识，需要花相当长的时间，其中还会牵涉到相当多的人。
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2. Page after page reveals a writer or a novel unread, and therefore a demerit on the great report card of one’s cultural life.
一页接着一页揭示出一个作者或者一本没有读过的小说，因此某人的文化生活的伟大的报告卡上就有了污点。
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3. Rooney will certainly fancy his chances, of course, although demerit's work will no doubt be shared by the equally uncompromising US national captain, Carlos Bocanegra, formerly of Fulham.
理所当然，鲁尼肯定想抓住这个机会，然而德莫雷特毫无疑问会和同样坚定的美国国家队队长卡罗斯·博卡内格拉,原富勒姆队队长一起工作。
- demerit (n.) late 14c., from Old French desmerite "blame, demerit" (Modern French démérite), from des- "not, opposite" (see dis-) + merite "merit" (see merit (n.)). Latin demereri meant "to merit, deserve," from de- in its completive sense. But Medieval Latin demeritum meant "fault." Both senses existed in the Middle French form of the word. Meaning "penalty point in school" is attested from 1862.
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