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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J.
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：
-- They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led them both to adopt the same subject.
-- It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it without success.
-- 'Indulge yourself,' he whispered; 'ought not the sugges-tion of the worthy namesake of the Psalmist to have its weight at such a moment?'
-- 'Le Renard Subtil has proved himself worthy of the honor-able name given to him by his Canada fathers,' commenced Heyward; 'I see his wisdom, and all that he has done for us, and shall remember it when the hour to reward him arrives.
-- Valiant and skillful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict, and I hereby thank thee, before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian's praise.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote pe-riod of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, 'tarried,' in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
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：
-- He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker; but there was no reason to waste one's time over him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses Grant, he fought at Paducah, Belmont, Pittsburg Landing, at the siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Black River, Chattanooga, the Wilderness, on the Potomac, everywhere and valiantly, a soldier worthy of the general who said, "I never count my dead!"
-- The reporter, to whom his tedious captivity did not offer a single incident worthy of note, could stand it no longer.
-- We must mention here that Pencroft, desirous to know if the clay thus prepared was worthy of its name of pipe-clay, made some large pipes, which he thought charming, but for which, alas!he had no tobacco, and that was a great privation to Pencroft.
-- He brushed their clothes, he turned the spit, he waited at table, he swept the rooms, he gathered wood, and he performed another admirable piece of service which delighted Pencroft he never went to sleep without first coming to tuck up the worthy sailor in his bed.
-- "All right, Herbert, and on that day our worthy companion will have nothing left to wish for in this world."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Her father was a blessed creetur, Quilp, and worthy twenty thousand of some people,' said Mrs Jiniwin; 'twenty hundred million thousand.'
-- 'It's as well not to say more than one can help before our worthy friend,' said Quilp, making a grimace towards the slumbering Dick.
-- He would visit the old man, or even Richard Swiveller might visit him, and by affecting a deep concern in his behalf, and imploring him to settle in some worthy home, lead to the child's remembering him with gratitude and favour.
-- But, the great ornaments of the walls were certain moral sentences fairly copied in good round text, and well-worked sums in simple addition and multiplication, evidently achieved by the same hand, which were plentifully pasted all round the room: for the double purpose, as it seemed, of bearing testimony to the excellence of the school, and kindling a worthy emulation in the bosoms of the scholars.
-- This done, she begged them in a kind of deep despair to drink; then laughed, then cried, then took a little sip herself, then laughed and cried again, and took a little more; and so, by degrees, the worthy lady went on, increasing in smiles and decreasing in tears, until at last she could not laugh enough at Miss Monflathers, who, from being an object of dire vexation, became one of sheer ridicule and absurdity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, against marrying Missy in particular, was, first, the extreme probability of his finding a girl of much better qualities than Missy, and, consequently, more worthy of him; and, second, Missy was twenty-seven years old and had probably loved other men before him.
-- "The Prince came to befriend you--to give you the land, but you are not worthy of it," said the German.
-- The President, Nikitin, quite sincerely thought that the officials with whom his duties brought him in contact were worthy of a place in history.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my particular benefit), and I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural History."
-- NED LANDCaptain Farragut was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded.
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