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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No doubt you would," said Lady Helena; "but the contents are more valuable than the bottle, and we had better sacrifice the one than the other."
-- "But that is a valuable scrap of information," said John Mangles.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I advise you to learn, for German is a valuable accomplishment to teachers.
-- It was, however, a very valuable copy of one of the famous pictures of the world, and Amy's beauty-loving eyes were never tired of looking up at the sweet face of the Divine Mother, while her tender thoughts of her own were busy at her heart.
-- And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.
-- He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe; the most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in aspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the only creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is obtained.
-- I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun.
-- Why such a whale became thus marked was not altogether and originally owing to his bodily peculiarities as distinguished from other whales; for however peculiar in that respect any chance whale may be, they soon put an end to his peculiarities by killing him, and boiling him down into a peculiarly valuable oil.
-- With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for the time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy has a new suit of clothes on his back, a set of valuable books under his arm, and a five-pound note in his pocket.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.
-- ' My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
-- 'He seems to be a most conscientious and polite young man, upon my word, and I doubt not will prove a valuable acquaintance, especially if Lady Catherine should be so in-dulgent as to let him come to us again.'
-- The church OUGHT to have been my profession I was brought up for the church, and I should at this time have been in posses- sion of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we were speaking of just now.'
-- What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither was this all; for my goods being all English man-ufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage; so that I might say I had more than four times the value of my first cargo, and was now infinitely beyond my poor neighbour - I mean in the advancement of my plantation; for the first thing I did, I bought me a negro slave, and an European servant also - I mean another besides that which the captain brought me from Lisbon.
-- And it was after long searching that I found out the carpenter's chest, which was, indeed, a very useful prize to me, and much more valuable than a shipload of gold would have been at that time.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
-- A valuable legacy indeed!And yet some of the plate would have been a very pleasant addition to our own stock here."
-- Our respected father, as you well know, bequeathed all the Stanhill effects that remained at Norland (and very valuable they were) to your mother.
-- "She seems a most valuable woman indeed Her house, her style of living, all bespeak an exceeding good income; and it is an acquaintance that has not only been of great use to you hitherto, but in the end may prove materially advantageous. Her inviting you to town is certainly a vast thing in your favour; and indeed, it speaks altogether so great a regard for you, that in all probability when she dies you will not be forgotten. She must have a great deal to leave."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not help feeling the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally, and yet she did not stop.
-- Make them valuable to others.
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