英语词汇meritocracy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	meritocracy
词源	meritocracy. Government by people who merit their jobs rather than those whose qualifications are mainly of class. Brit- ish sociologist Michael Young (b. 1915), now Lord Young, coined the term in his book The Rise of the Meritocracy (1955).
随便看	all i know is what i read in the papers all in the same boat all is lost save honor alliteration all men make faults all mouth and no ears all my eye and betty martin all oak and iron bound all-overs all over the ballpark all quiet on the potomac all quiet on the western front all roads lead to rome all she wrote all shook up allspice all-s right with the world all-star game all-s well that ends well all systems go all that glitters is not gold all that meat and no potatoes all the bullet holes in the front of him all the news that-s fit to print all the tea in china

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