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是一些国家采用一种做法，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.

在几个世纪调查和评论中，在众想象中或在评估相对优点和缺点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，这些判断不规则性甚至在比玛丽·加斯更成熟头脑中也能发现：我们公正性是为了抽象功绩和过失而保持，这是我们谁都没有见过。