所有报考者都能对答如流。

All the candidates are able to answer the questions without any hitch.

报考者没有全部通过。

The candidates didn't all get through.

主考人员评定，半数以上报考者不及格。

The examiners failed over half the candidates.

今年的报考者不再受年龄与婚否的限制。

Neither age nor marital status will restrict people who register for university entrance exams this year.

grandes écoles非常注重任人唯贤，报考者要在一系列紧张的测试中互相挑战。 尽管如此，企业高级管理层被该校毕业生占据，使工作环境不甚良好。

Although the grandes écoles are superbly meritocratic—candidates compete against each other in a series of gruelling exams—their dominance of corporate hierarchies makes workplaces much less so.