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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is not worth speaking of.'
-- How it came to pass that any people found it worth their while to sell or buy the wretched little toys, mixed up in its window with cheap newspapers and pork (there was a leg to be raffled for to-morrow-night), matters not here.
-- He is not worth his salt, ma'am.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were questions worth thinking about, and upon them I reflected long and deeply.
-- Here is a journey worth twenty to Spa."
-- "Now," said I, "it is not worth while letting this water run to waste."
-- It is worth the whole journey to have enjoyed this magnificent spectacle--it is something to have seen."
-- I cried, carried away by a burst of enthusiasm, "the distance is scarcely worth speaking about.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'UNE IMMENSE ESP RANCE A TRAVERS LA TERRE', he read somewhere, and his comment was:' and it's darned-well drowned ev-erything worth having.'
-- Don't you think it's worth con-sidering?'
-- 'Certainly nothing but the spirit in us is worth having,' said Winterslow.
-- She had a woman's queer faculty of playing even chess well enough, when she was three parts asleep, well enough to make her worth beating.
-- Who has given the colliers all they have that's worth having: all their political liberty, and their education, such as it is, their sanitation, their health-condi-tions, their books, their music, everything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen so little happiness come of money; it has brought within my knowledge so little peace to this house, or to any one belonging to it, that it is worth less to me than to another.
-- He brought in a portmanteau with him, which he doubted its being worth while to unpack; he was so perfectly clear like all the rest of them, the turnkey on the lock said that he was going out again directly.
-- It would be worth no man's while to mislead me; it would really be too easy too poor a success, to yield any satisfaction.
-- The little staircase windows looked in at the back windows of other houses as unwholesome as itself, with poles and lines thrust out of them, on which unsightly linen hung; as if the inhabitants were angling for clothes, and had had some wretched bites not worth attending to.
-- 'My faith!If your philosophical philanthropy,' said the landlady, putting down her work, and rising to take the stranger's soup from her husband, who appeared with it at a side door, 'puts anybody at the mercy of such people by holding terms with them at all, in words or deeds, or both, take it away from the Break of Day, for it isn't worth a sou.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of ex-cellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.'
-- Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
-- Mother 'That does me good!That's worth millions of money and pecks of praise.
-- 'Wait and see if it doesn't bring you something worth having,' replied the boy, laugh-ing at the thought of a charming little secret which he fancied he knew.
-- I'd do as much for our Jimmy any day if I had a spire of hair worth selling.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, a man like Queequeg you don't see every day, he and his ways were well worth unusual regarding.
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