value是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 价格； 价值； 实用性v. 评价， 估价； 尊重，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king made me a present to the value of about two hundred pounds English, and my protector, his kinsman, as much more, together with a letter of rec-ommendation to a friend of his in Lagado, the metropolis.
-- The second was of an opinion directly contrary; 'to tax those qualities of body and mind, for which men chief-ly value themselves; the rate to be more or less, according to the degrees of excelling; the decision whereof should be 237left entirely to their own breast.'
-- But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; be-cause they are qualifications of so singular a kind, that no man will either allow them in his neighbour or value them in himself.
-- Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; 'that when a Ya-hoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest cloth-ing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.
-- In the like manner, when I used to explain to him our sev-eral systems of natural philosophy, he would laugh, 'that a creature pretending to reason, should value itself upon the knowledge of other people's conjectures, and in things where that knowledge, if it were certain, could be of no use.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you attach no value to their good opinion?
-- 'You see, my friend,' Mr. Bounderby put in, 'we are the kind of people who know the value of time, and you are the kind of people who don't know the value of time.'
-- I attached no value to them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- The sounding rod, a mere machine, could not bring to the surface of the earth the objects of value for the study of its internal structure, which we were about to see with our own eyes, to touch with our own hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.
-- 'I beg Mr Dorrit to offer a thousand apologies and indeed they would be far too few for such an intrusion which I know must appear extremely bold in a lady and alone too, but I thought it best upon the whole however difficult and even apparently improper though Mr F.'s Aunt would have willingly accompanied me and as a character of great force and spirit would probably have struck one possessed of such a knowledge of life as no doubt with so many changes must have been acquired, for Mr F. himself said frequently that although well educated in the neighbourhood of Blackheath at as high as eighty guineas which is a good deal for parents and the plate kept back too on going away but that is more a meanness than its value that he had learnt more in his first years as a commercial traveller with a large commission on the sale of an article that nobody would hear of much less buy which preceded the wine trade a long time than in the whole six years in that academy conducted by a college Bachelor, though why a Bachelor more clever than a married man I do not see and never did but pray excuse me that is not the point.'
-- For this reason I have for some time inclined to tell you what my life has been not to propitiate your opinion, for I set no value on it; but that you may comprehend, when you think of your dear friend and his dear wife, what I mean by hating.
-- They appraised me in their own minds, I saw, and were curious to ascertain what my full value was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of ex-cellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.'
-- President and gentlemen,' he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, 'I wish to propose the ad-mission of a new member one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add im-mensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
-- Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always be-fore her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and to sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
-- Meg, my dear, I value the womanly skill which keeps home happy more than white hands or fashionable accomplishments.
-- But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the critism which is an author's best edu-cation, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.
-- When, as I opine, in the course of time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.
-- Wherefore the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line, harpoons, and boat.
-- "He vows and declares, Monsieur, that the other whale, the dried one, is far more deadly than the blasted one; in fine, Monsieur, he conjures us, as we value our lives, to cut loose from these fish."
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