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：
-- But at any rate, they will be very valuable to us."
-- Paganel welcomed the storm, which was a valuable aid to his plans, and completed his program.
-- I wish to obtain from you certain advantages which would be valuable to me.
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：
-- The fellow had evident-ly made inquiry and found that only two lives intervened between him and a valuable estate.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your bundle has some importance, however,' continued the clerk, when they had laughed their fill (it was observable that the subject of their mirth joined in the laughter when he saw them laughing); 'for though I dare say it is not stuffed full of friedrichs d'or and louis d'or judge from your cos-tume and gaiters still if you can add to your possessions such a valuable property as a relation like Mrs. General Ep-anchin, then your bundle becomes a significant object at once.
-- Then she took to helping him without leave; and he saw how valuable her assistance was to him, and did not drive her away again; on the contrary, he occasionally gave her the remnants of his dinner, bread and cheese.
-- She was exhibited to their guests like a valuable picture, or vase, or statue, or firescreen.
-- 'Now, that is a valuable piece of information, Mr. Keller,' replied Gania.
-- It's a valuable one; DO break it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been given a prescription, most valuable prescription what for he wouldn't say.
-- I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had published some very astonishing facts in connection with the transfusion of blood, and in addition was known to be doing valuable work on morbid growths.
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：
-- When this opening was translated to Munro, he an-swered with dignity, but with sufficient courtesy: 'However I may prize such testimony from Monsieur Montcalm, it will be more valuable when it shall be better merited.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I presume my time is no less valuable than his."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was indeed a valuable result of their labor, and a very opportune one.
-- It was a valuable resource of the colony, and it appeared to be inexhaustible.
-- "As to that apparatus," replied Harding, "I do not quite see the use of it; and a more complete supply of clothes or more abundant ammunition would have been more valuable to us as well as to any other castaways!"
-- On the right bank of the river grew magnificent specimens of the ulmaceae tribe, the precious elm, so valuable to builders, and which withstands well the action of water.
-- "Good," said he; "this is a valuable discovery."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he considered it necessary to curtail his needs, wore an old coat and gave up wine-drinking, everybody considered it eccentric and vain originality; but when he spent large sums in organizing a chase, or building an unusual, luxurious cabinet, everybody praised his taste and sent him valuable gifts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was then reading a charming book by Jean Mace, The Slaves of the Stomach, and I was learning some valuable lessons from it, when Conseil interrupted me.
-- This coral was more valuable than that found in the Mediterranean, on the coasts of France, Italy and Barbary.
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