valued是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 宝贵的，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：
-- They were brought by Paddy's sons, and Lord Glenarvan paid the sum stipulated for his various purchases, adding his cordial thanks, which the worthy Irishman valued at least as much as his golden guineas.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For in-stance, he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background; and in con-sequence many exalted personages valued him principally for his humility and simplicity, and because 'he knew his place.'
-- The general valued the proposal very highly.
-- He had sufficient insight to understand that she valued nothing in the world herself least of all and he made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was a cow-ard in some respects.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had so done he gave them over to his chosen comrade Deipylus, whom he valued above all others as the one who was most like-minded with himself, to take them on to the ships.
-- Achilles groaned and answered, 'Mother, Olympian Jove has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfilment of my prayer, but what boots it to me, seeing that my dear comrade Patro-clus has fallen he whom I valued more than all others, and loved as dearly as my own life?
-- For the winner there was a great tripod ready for setting upon the fire, and the Achae-ans valued it among themselves at twelve oxen.
-- For the loser he brought out a woman skilled in all manner of arts, and they valued her at four oxen.
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：
-- Adjusting his rifle, he was about to make an exhibition of that skill on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior struck up the piece with his hand, saying: 'Hawkeye!will you fight the Maquas?'
-- Montcalm has got him, and with the accursed politeness of his nation, he has sent him in with a doleful tale, of 'knowing how I valued the fellow, he could not think of retaining him.'
-- When they parted, therefore, he kept the former within reach of his hand, consigning the one he most valued to the keeping of their allies.
-- Per-ceiving that the men were unable to offer any resistance, he turned his looks on her he valued most.
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：
-- In those days conversation was still cultivated as an art; a neat repartee was more highly valued than the crackling of thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Second, she valued him above all other men, hence, he thought she understood him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she cried; 'I, who have prided myself on my discernment!I, who have valued my-self on my abilities!who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!How humiliating is this discovery!Yet, how just a humiliation!Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind!But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
-- She dared not re-late the other half of Mr. Darcy's letter, nor explain to her sister how sincerely she had been valued by her friend.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.
-- He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.
-- " "If such is your way of thinking," said Marianne, "if the loss of what is most valued is so easily to be made up by something else, your resolution, your self-command, are, perhaps, a little less to be wondered at. They are brought more within my comprehension."
-- Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment to her valued friend; and to see Marianne settled at the mansion-house was equally the wish of Edward and Elinor.
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