Granted, this complaint often comes from sour-grapes rivals. But many others are put off by Google's cocksure assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust.(誠然，這種不滿的聲音通常來自懷有酸葡萄心理的競爭對手，但谷歌自負獨斷地標榜自身的神圣崇高、好似絕對的信任理所當然的言行也讓許多其他企業感到厭惡。)

Christ merited a great reward because he died when he had no need to.(基督值得偉大的獎賞，因為他去世時，他已沒有必要。)

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe.(是的，年輕人，意大利由于有了你們，得以完成這項寰宇稱頌的偉業。)

He merited all the praise, which had been given to him.(他理應受到人們給他的一切稱贊。)

Yes, young man, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe.(是的，年輕人，意大利由于有了你們，得以成就這項寰宇稱頌的偉業。)

Making such a closure now has not been merited by the facts, "she said."(“讓這樣一個封閉現在還沒有被事實值得，”她說。)

Students who are seen as slackers will earn worse grades, sometimes worse than merited.(被老師認為是懶惰的學生會得到比較差的成績。)

He was angry that European Union leaders have not stopped Slovenia from blocking Croatia's EU accession talks over a trivial border dispute-but nobody thinks that merited his departure.(斯洛文尼亞一直利用瑣碎的邊界爭端來阻撓克羅地亞加入歐盟，而歐盟各國領導人卻聽之任之，薩納·戴爾對此表示異常憤怒——但沒有人會認為這是他辭職的原因。)

What took me by surprise was that during our three-hour conversation he said little about his core business, even though it definitely merited attention.(讓我感到意外的是，在我們長達3個小時的交談中，他很少談及自己的核心業務，即使這絕對值得一提。)

astronomers with their instruments embarked, and the whole placed under the charge of James Cook, a sailor whose admirable character fully merited this distinction.(這艘船的指揮官叫詹姆斯·庫克船長，他憑借其令人欽佩的品質，稱為這一職務的不二人選。)