The broadcasting of criminal trials on television, a practice adopted in some countries, has sparked a debate over its merits and demerits.

在电视上播出刑事审判国家采用种做法，这引发了关于其优缺点辩论。

In surveys and commentaries over the centuries he has generally not fared well in the popular imagination or amongst professional historians assessing the relative merits and demerits of his rule.

在几个世纪以来调查和评论中，他在众想象中或在评估他统治相对优点和缺点专业历史学家中普遍表现佳。

These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

我想，这判规则性甚至在比玛丽·加斯更成熟头脑中也能发现：我们公正性为了抽象功绩和过失而保持，这我们谁都没有见过。