worth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 价值a. 值…的， 价值…的， 值得…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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In every-thing that made my love of any worth or value in your sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that it did the least good in the way of prevention it might almost have been worth remarking that the fact was exactly the reverse but, it cleared off (as to this world) the trouble of each particular case, and left nothing else connected with it to be looked after.
-- 'And what do you suppose, you conceited female,' said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, 'that the worth of YOUR prayers may be?
-- They are worth no more than that.'
-- 'Worth no more than that,' repeated Mr. Cruncher.
-- 'They ain't worth much, then.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * * A.D. 1482-1513 While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
-- There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full of picture-books and full of toys, worth hundreds and hun-dreds of crowns at least the children said so.
-- 'Tut!That's not worth talking about,' said the Raven of the woods.
-- 'I am a Kjoger hen,'* said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Your praise is worth having.
-- "He's not worth your grieving over him," pursued Darya Alexandrovna, coming straight to the point.
-- "Because the forest is worth at least a hundred and fifty roubles the acre," answered Levin.
-- I go there every year shooting, and your forest's worth a hundred and fifty roubles and acre paid down, while he's giving you sixty by installments.
-- He wouldn't look at a bargain that gave him ten, fifteen per cent profit, but holds back to buy a rouble's worth for twenty kopecks."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these distant seas, coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton.
-- Mr. Fogg said nothing; while Passepartout, abashed, kept repeating that "it wasn't worth telling."
-- It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination, and now turned up so unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr. Fogg's tracks step by step.
-- No doubt; at least, it was worth considering.
-- They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 's and singing dinkle-songs and wearing hats with initials burned into them--iss it worth while to protect them from the so elegantly functioning Bacillus typhosus with its lovely flagella?
-- "They do not!If they did--I'd like to see anybody that tried laughing--" "It's awfully sweet and dear of you, but I'm not worth it.
-- For don't forget, gentlemen, and this is my last message to you, the man worth while is not merely the man who takes things with a smile but also the man who's trained in philosophy, PRACTICAL philosophy, so that instead of day-dreaming and spending all his time talking about 'ethics,' splendid though they are, and 'charity,' glorious virtue though that be, yet he never forgets that unfortunately the world judges a man by the amount of good hard cash he can lay away.
-- Nothing seemed worth doing.
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