Should promotion be based on merit or seniority?

提拔一个人应当看业绩，还是看资历？

They offered him a post befitting his seniority and experience.

他们给他提供了一个适合他的资历与经验的职位。

Ought promotion to go by seniority or by abilities?

晋级应以年资为准，还是以能力为准？

Old age and seniority alone do not command authority among the British: in fact modern life has been developing so fast that old people often appear tiresome and out of date.

在英国人当中，年长和资历本身并没有什么权威性：事实上，现代生活发展飞快，老年人常显得乏味又过时。

He has said he will fire editorial employees without regard to seniority.

他说过在解雇编辑人员时他不会考虑其资历如何。

Intervale farmers are divided into three categories based on seniority.

丘陵间低地农民基于资历分为三类。

Influenced by old ideas, some units assign posts according to seniority.

由于受旧观念的影响，有些单位分配工作按资排辈。

He can't be fired due to seniority.

而他因为教龄长而不会被解雇。

In business, the seniority system is entrenched.

在商业领域，按资排辈的制度根深蒂固；

You have the seniority and I know you can do the job.

你具备应有资历，你会把工作做好的。

They have skills, experience and seniority, and are thus last to be sacked.

他们有能力有经验有资历，所以最不可能被裁员。

Respect for seniority means that promotions go to the older, not the most able.

尊老意味着姜还是老的辣，而年轻有为者则难有升职的机会。

Younger employees with fresher skills are the first to go because of seniority rules.

而年资准则不允许企业遣散年资长的员工，所以有新技术的年轻员工常常最先离开工作岗位。

Less understood is the seniority-wage system, a third pillar of Japanese business.

另外意见不能让人理解的是日本的资历薪水制度。

I had been under the impression that this was a job in which seniority was undesirable.

之前，我一直的印象就是这个工作完全不需要资历。

In these companies, workers are paid more for their seniority and less for their skills.

在这些公司里，职员们更多地按照资历来得到薪水而非技能。

More shocking is the breadth of companies and the seniority of the individuals involved.

更加令人吃惊的是所涉及的公司之广和人员资历之高。

Taken together, Han is telling his readersthat solemnity and seniority are not to be trusted.

总而言之，韩寒在告诉他的读者，庄严之物和年资都不足凭信。

There is job security, shift seniority (Christmas off after 10 years' service!) and health care.

她们有工作保障、工龄优待(有10年工龄的职工可以享受圣诞假期！)和医疗保健。

They tended to be paid according to seniority, rather than productivity, and were costlier to sack.

因为他们是根据资历而非效率来决定收入，而解雇他们往往代价更高。

Younger teachers are usually the first to be let go, even though seniority does not necessarily ensure quality.

年轻教师常常首当其冲，尽管年长的教师并不一定教得很好。

My superior had seniority, experience and talents that suited her to the job, qualifications that I lacked.

我的上司资历高、经验足、能力大，完全胜任工作，我则缺少这些资格。

Older chimps may go bald, and leopards suffer faded spots, but not all creatures bear such badges of seniority.

黑猩猩老了或许会脱毛，豹子老了遭受斑点褪色，但不是所有的动物都会得到这些代表资历的徽标。

Traditional seniority systems, under which people get promoted and paid more as they age, therefore need to change.

传统的老年体制下，凭年龄晋升和拿工资制度因此需要作出改变。

Despite his seniority and reputation as one of Poland's finest fighter pilots, investigators quickly doubted his story.

尽管，克莱琴斯基的资历和声誉让他被认为是波兰最优秀的战斗机飞行员，但调查人员还是迅速从他的讲述中发现了破绽。

Rigid salary structures in which pay rises with seniority (as in Japan) should also be replaced with more flexible ones.

那种严格的与工作年限挂钩(如日本)的工资增长应由更灵活的方式取代。

At South Korean companies, many employers pay workers based on seniority rather than merit to avoid controversies over fairness.

在韩国公司里，许多老板依据员工的资历而非才干来支付报酬，就是为了避免在公平与否的问题上引发争议。

In Japanese companies which adopt a traditional pecking order based upon seniority, the older the age of an employee, the more he is paid.

日本企业采用在资历基础上的传统权势等级制度，职员年岁越长，薪水越高。