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

在视上播出刑事审判是一些国家采用的一种做法，这引发了关于其优缺点的辩论。

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.

在几个世纪以来的调查和评论中，他在众想象中或在评估他统治的相对优点和缺点的专业历史学家中普遍表现不佳。

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，这些判断的不规则性甚至在比玛·更成熟的头脑中也能发现：我们的公正性是为了抽象的功绩和过失而保持的，这是我们谁都没有见过的。