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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Were they, in their present condition of nincompoopery, worth any sort of attention?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth anything.
-- And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers 芒聙娄 then there must be some other chest or strong-box 芒聙娄 that's worth knowing.
-- It will be worth your while.
-- 'He's taken to bolting himself in!As if he were worth steal-ing!Open, you stupid, wake up!'
-- But what did he care now for an I O U, for a writ of recovery!Was that worth worrying about now, was it worth attention even!He stood, he read, he listened, he answered, he even asked questions himself, but all mechanically.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden,in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little oneindeed, and not worth darning.
-- I wondered how I could have thought she looked white, oranything but burning red, when she answered that she had had itsafe, a little while ago, she thought, but it was not worth lookingfor.
-- Firstly, on account of its being sowell worth seeing, and our never having seen it; and secondly, onaccount of the great probability of something turning up in acathedral town.
-- 'There's cattle!A Suffolk Punch, when he'sa good 'un, is worth his weight in gold.
-- It would be worth a journey(not to mention the pleasure of a journey with you, Daisy), to seethat sort of people together, and to make one of 'em.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect some-thing worth their putting in.
-- The preparing and the going abroad in such weather, with the sacrifice of his children after dinner, were evils, were disagreeables at least, which Mr. John Knight-ley did not by any means like; he anticipated nothing in the visit that could be at all worth the purchase; and the whole of their drive to the vicarage was spent by him in express-ing his discontent.
-- I was introducing her into good company, and giving her the opportunity of pleasing some one worth having; I ought not to have attempted more.
-- 'And those times are whenever he thinks it worth his while; whenever there is any temptation of pleasure.'
-- 'My dear, you said that Miss Campbell would not allow him to be plain, and that you yourself ' 'Oh!as for me, my judgment is worth nothing.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Man,' saith I in my hurry, but he were of a higher circle of life than that 'a was a gentleman-tailor really, worth scores of pounds.
-- "He can blow the flute very well that 'a can," said a young married man, who having no individuality worth mentioning was known as "Susan Tall's husband."
-- Bathsheba had so many reasons for uneasiness that it seemed she did not think it worth while to dwell upon any particular one.
-- Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave, and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him, and he cost Farmer Ives's daughter nights of tears and twenty pounds' worth of new clothes; but Lord the money might as well have been thrown out of the window."
-- None of these were clothed to any extent worth mentioning, each appearing to have hit in the matter of raiment the decent mean between a high and low caste Hindoo.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is as good as a plaything for the rest of them; they can never let him alone; but he is a good man, all the same, and worth more than all of them put together.
-- His life is so mysterious that it must be worth studying.
-- "Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.--I am not speaking of the ladies," he added, turning in the direction of Mlle.
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