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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom Austin, the mate, was an old sailor, worthy of all confidence.
-- Mary involuntarily gave a start, but the captain said:"Oh, don't be afraid, Miss Mary; he is all right, take my word for it; I'll have a capital sailor to present to Captain Grant before long, for we'll find the worthy captain, depend upon it."
-- Little Robert flung himself on his neck in such tumultuous delight that he nearly threw the worthy secretary down, and made him say, "Rude petit bonhomme.
-- But Glenarvan replied:"Patience, my worthy geographer.
-- The Major and his cousin exchanged sly glances, and McNabbs said, mischievously, with a look of fun on his face, "Ah, ah, my worthy friend; is this another of your misadventures?
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：
-- 'Yes, the setting is a worthy one.
-- I tell you, Watson, this time we have got a foeman who is worthy of our steel.
-- 'No, they are the homes of our worthy ancestors.
-- I told you in Lon- don, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a few exceptions, the worthy couple had lived through their long union very happily.
-- This worthy gentleman could never quite reconcile himself to the idea of meeting Ferdishenko in so-ciety, and on an equal footing.
-- Then the general's fine grey horse dragged that worthy home, with some new thoughts, and some new hopes and calculations developing in his brain, and with the pearls in his pocket, for he had not forgotten to bring them along with him, being a man of business.
-- I insist on this point in order to justify him; I repeat that his simple-mind-edness makes him worthy of pity, and that he cannot stand alone; otherwise he would have behaved like a scoundrel in this matter.
-- 'There is not one of them all who is worthy of these words of yours,' continued Aglaya.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the worthy gentleman, stimulated perhaps by the immediate prospect of being on active service, was in great spirits and good humour; in proof whereof, it may be here remarked, that he humourously drank all the beer at a draught, and did not utter, on a rough calculation, more than four-score oaths during the whole progress of the meal.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It now first struck her, that SHE was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Ros-ings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was exemplified in me, at this time, in the most lively manner imaginable; for I, whose only affliction was that I seemed banished from human society, that I was alone, circum-scribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the liv-ing, or to appear among the rest of His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow; I say, that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of a man having set his foot in the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That worthy gave up just four dollars less toward the household expenses with a smile of satisfaction.
-- He had no mental process in him worthy the dignity of either of those terms.
-- He bobbed about among men, a veritable bundle of enthusiasm--no power worthy the name of intellect, no thoughts worthy the adjective noble, no feelings long continued in one strain.
-- That worthy had his future fixed for him beyond a peradventure.
-- He thought Carrie worthy of all the affection he could there express.
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