英语词源
- unmerited (adj.)
- 1640s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of merit (v.).
"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone." [Walter Savage Landor, "Imaginary Conversations"]
权威例句
- 1. In fact the pressure comes from subjective feelings and the aftermath of the unmerited reaction.
- 真正的压力来自主观的感受,或者反应不当所带来的后果.
- 2. Nothing but contempt is due to those people who ask us to submit to unmerited oppression.
- 对于那些要求我们服从我们不能受之压迫的人,我们有的只是轻蔑.