worthy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (of) 值得…的， 配得上…的； 有价值的，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《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It may be so, sir," I timidly observed, "but why conceal it from posterity, if it be a useful, a worthy discovery?"
-- "My worthy uncle is already nearly mad," I cried aloud.
-- Still time went on; night came, the sounds in the streets ceased--and still my uncle went on, not even answering our worthy cook when she called us to supper.
-- If I were only a man!A journey worthy of the nephew of Professor Hardwigg.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your respected mother was rather jealous of her son, maybe; when I say her son, I mean your worthy self, your worthy self.'
-- He gave the patient a friendly clap on the shoulder again, as if he really felt that he was a very good fellow indeed, and worthy of all commendation for having broken his leg in a manner interesting to science.
-- Under which circumstances she has answered Our John, "No, John, I cannot have you, I cannot have any husband, it is not my intentions ever to become a wife, it is my intentions to be always a sacrifice, farewell, find another worthy of you, and forget me!"
-- This is the way in which she is doomed to be a constant slave to them that are not worthy that a constant slave she unto them should be.
-- He told the worthy Mrs Chivery, after turning these things over in his mind he did that, indeed, while she was yet speaking that he might be relied upon to do his utmost at all times to promote the happiness of Miss Dorrit, and to further the wishes of her heart if it were in his power to do so, and if he could discover what they were.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt woke up and, being more good-natured after her nap, told me to read a bit and show what frivolous work I preferred to the worthy and instructive Belsham.
-- It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
-- We have many most respectable and worthy young women who do the same and are employed by the nobility, because, being the daughters of gentlemen, they are both well bred and accomplished, you know,' said Miss Kate in a patronizing tone that hurt Meg's pride, and made her work seem not only more distasteful, but degrading.
-- Jo took him at his word, for she coolly turned round and studied him a proceeding which would have much surprised him, had he know it, for the worthy Professor was very humble in his own conceit.
-- She valued his esteem, she coveted his respect, she wanted to be worthy of his friend-ship, and just when the wish was sincerest, she came near to losing everything.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miserable man!Oh!most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.
-- Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
-- Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Bildad.
-- The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
-- "'Nay,' said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having by this time recovered a little breath, the worthy book-stall keeper proceeded to relate, in a more coherent manner the exact circumstances of the robbery.
-- Mr. Brownlow smiled; and, turning to Oliver, said that Mr. Grimwig was an old friend of his, and he must not mind his being a little rough in his manners; for he was a worthy creature at bottom, as he had reason to know.
-- It is worthy of remark, as illustrating the importance we attach to our own judgments, and the pride with which we put forth our most rash and hasty conclusions, that, although Mr. Grimwig was not by any means a bad-hearted man, and though he would have been unfeignedly sorry to see his respected friend duped and deceived, he really did most earnestly and strongly hope at that moment, that Oliver Twist might not come back.
-- Having heard this, the worthy old lady hurried back into the parlour again; and seating herself on a sofa, burst into tears.
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