valuable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 贵重的， 有价值的n. (pl. ) 贵重物品， 财宝，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson's, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them), opened before him, and he went in among them with the great keys and the fee-bly-burning candle, and found them safe, and strong, and sound, and still, just as he had last seen them.
-- 'Help, gentlemen officers!The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by time-ly aid!Help, help!'
-- Barsad,' he went on, in the tone of one who real-ly was looking over a hand at cards: 'Sheep of the prisons, emissary of Republican committees, now turnkey, now prisoner, always spy and secret informer, so much the more valuable here for being English that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a Frenchman, represents himself to his employers under a false name.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, I can do it"; and then he rattled a whole bunch of valuable seals that hung to his watch, and he stuck his hand in the thick gold chain he wore around his neck nay!how all his fingers glittered with diamond rings; and then all were pure gems.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cowhouse for the more valuable cows was just behind the house.
-- To Sergey Ivanovitch the country meant on one hand rest from work, on the other a valuable antidote to the corrupt influences of town, which he took with satisfaction and a sense of its utility.
-- But in the Oblonskys' household, as in all families indeed, there was one inconspicuous but most valuable and useful person, Marya Philimonovna.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, passengers at two thousand dollars are no longer passengers, but valuable merchandise.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I am leaving this field where I have labored so long and happily, I want to ask every man jack of you to read, before you begin to practice medicine, not merely your Rosenau and Howell and Gray, but also, as a preparation for being that which all good citizens must be, namely, practical men, a most valuable little manual of modern psychology, 'How to Put Pep in Salesmanship,' by Grosvenor A. Bibby.
-- The banquet ended early, and there was inadequate attention to Dr. Rouncefield's valuable address on the Sterilization of Catgut.
-- He became Martin's collaborator; unpaid, tireless, not very skillful, valuable in his buoyancy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I may be bringing you something else in a day or two, Alyona Ivanovna a valuable thing silver a cigarette-box, as soon as I get it back from a friend 芒聙娄' he broke off in confusion.
-- New valuable ideas, new valu-able works are circulating in the place of our old dreamy and romantic authors.
-- Your valuable evidence has finally made everything clear to me.
-- If only we had scientific men, doctors, lawyers and philosophers might make most valuable investigations in Petersburg each in his own line.
-- From being so long under the stone, some of the most valuable notes lying uppermost had suffered from the damp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her serviceshave been more valuable than was supposed; her learning has beenquicker than was supposed; Omer and Joram can run their penthrough what remains; and she's free when you wish.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had ventured once alone to Randalls, but it was not pleasant; and a Harriet Smith, therefore, one whom she could summon at any time to a walk, would be a valuable addition to her privileges.
-- Even this conquest would appear valuable in her eyes.
-- Her character depends upon those she is with; but in good hands she will turn out a valuable wom-an.'
-- She would keep the peace if pos-sible; and there was something honourable and valuable in the strong domestic habits, the all-sufficiency of home tohimself, whence resulted her brother's disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse, and those to whom it was important. It had a high claim to forbear-ance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, it was faintly depressing that the most dignified and valuable man in the parish should withhold his eyes, and that a girl like Liddy should talk about it.
-- "Oh, how can you do such a thing; that is if you really mean it!Give me your dead father's watch, and such a valuable one!You should not be so reckless, indeed, Sergeant Troy!"
-- "True," she said, and though vexed at first she had too much sense to blame them long or seriously for a devotion to her that was as valuable as it was rare.
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