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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It ran: 'As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.'
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- The total value of the estate was close on to a million.'
-- 'And as you value your life do not go across the moor in any direction save along the straight path which leads from Merripit House to the Grimpen Road, and is your natural way home.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'There,' she says, 'take your ear-rings, you wretched old miser; although they are ten times dearer than their value to me now that I know what it must have cost Parfen to get them!Give Parfen my compliments,' she says, 'and thank him very much!'
-- As for the seventy-five thousand roubles, Mr. Totski need not have found any difficulty or awkwardness about the matter; she quite understood the value of money, and would, of course, accept the gift.
-- It is not that I do not value your society; and you must never suppose that I have taken offence at anything.
-- I fished out fourpence, and put his cross on my own neck, and I could see by his face that he was as pleased as he could be at the thought that he had succeeded in cheating a fool-ish gentleman, and away he went to drink the value of his cross.
-- He thought little of the value of his own personal influence, not from a sense of humility, but from his peculiar way of looking at things in general.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neleus was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he divided the rest, that no man might have less than his full share.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'True; for he would value the animals for very different properties.
-- Military usage pride that pride on which you so much value yourself, demands that your father and I should for a little while continue with the troops.
-- The Indian smiled grimly, and extended one hand, in sign of a willingness to exchange, while, with the other, he flour-ished the babe over his head, holding it by the feet as if to enhance the value of the ransom.
-- 'Not a word to either, as you value your life.
-- No, no; your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, out-runs that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The value of this angle would give the height of Alpha, and consequently that of the pole above the horizon, that is to say, the latitude of the island, since the latitude of a point of the globe is always equal to the height of the pole above the horizon of this point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You'll have no conception of the value of your prize until you draw close to it.
-- It is not uncommon for human clay in this condition to value itself above all things upon its great prudence and sagacity; and Mr Swiveller, especially prizing himself upon these qualities, took occasion to remark that he had made strange discoveries in connection with the single gentleman who lodged above, which he had determined to keep within his own bosom, and which neither tortures nor cajolery should ever induce him to reveal.
-- 'I I can hardly believe it,' panted Sampson, 'but something of value is missing from the office.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This boy and another were charged with breaking the lock of a shed and stealing therefrom mats of the value of three rubles and sixty-seven kopecks.
-- The arguments of the clerk that not one-fourth of the value of the stock could be realized on a sale, that the peasants would permit the land to run to waste, only strengthened his determination and confirmed him in his belief that he was doing a good deed by giving the land to the peasants, and depriving himself of the greater part of his income.
-- The answer to this is, that those who own the better land should pay to those who own the poorer the value of the better land.
-- But as it is difficult to determine how much anyone should pay, and to whom, and as society needs money for common utilities, let every land owner pay to society the full value of his land--less, if it is poorer; more, if it is better.
-- We do not keep them; we do not particularly value their presence," said the general, again with a waggish smile, which had the effect only of making his face wry.
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