virtues
Virtue is thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.
Virtue is not confined to the Christian world.
善行并不仅限于基督教世界。
A virtue is a good quality or way of behaving.
His virtue is patience.
耐心是他的美德。
The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else.
There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come.
按我来的路线返回卡尔维并不可取。
by virtue of
You use by virtue of to explain why something happens or is true.
The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.
由于一个细节,这篇文章给我留下了深刻印象。