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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
-- What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin!He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall.
-- This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was worth gettingexpelled from the university.
-- The Troop bowed to real worth and moreover, becausethey liked him, they made him an officer.
-- 'Tis the onlything worth working for, worth fighting for worth dying for."
-- There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth ahundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the deathof an English absentee landlord's rent agent, it was time for Gerald O'Hara to be leaving and leaving suddenly.
-- wasn't worth having.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag him back!"
-- "Nothing worth mentioning," replied Camilla.
-- But I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.
-- And if it is to gain her over, I should think--but you know best--she was not worth gaining over."
-- Putting on the best clothes I had, I went into town as early as I could hope to find the shops open, and presented myself before Mr. Trabb, the tailor, who was having his breakfast in the parlor behind his shop, and who did not think it worth his while to come out to me, but called me into him.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'
-- said the old man; 'you have made good use of your time, and learnt something worth the knowing; but I am sure I do not know which ought to have the prize.
-- He thought to himself, 'If the giant sees me going in, my life will not be worth much.'
-- 'It's not worth the trouble,' said the third; 'let him live, he'll go climbing higher up the moun-tain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent fish; for they seldom get any from the sea, because the sea fish are of the same size with those in Europe, and consequently not worth catch-ing; whereby it is manifest, that nature, in the production of plants and animals of so extraordinary a bulk, is wholly confined to this continent, of which I leave the reasons to be determined by philosophers.
-- An-other time, walking to the top of a fresh mole-hill, I fell to my neck in the hole, through which that animal had cast up the earth, and coined some lie, not worth remembering, to excuse myself for spoiling my clothes.
-- He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
-- My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating.
-- Nothing happened worth mentioning in this voyage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, Louisa, that's worth a kiss, isn't it?'
-- Lady Scadgers (an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning.
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