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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty sharkish.
-- Damn me, it's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.
-- However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
-- By the Lord, it's worth bottling!I tell ye what, men, old Rad's investment must go for it!he had best cut away his part of the hull and tow it home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
-- In our station-houses, men and women are every night confined on the most trivial charges--the word is worth noting--in dungeons, compared with which, those in Newgate, occupied by the most atrocious felons, tried, found guilty, and under sentence of death, are palaces.
-- When he got into Clerkenwell, he accidently turned down a by-street which was not exactly in his way; but not discovering his mistake until he had got half-way down it, and knowing it must lead in the right direction, he did not think it worth while to turn back; and so marched on, as quickly as he could, with the books under his arm.
-- 'Fagin,' said Sikes, abruptly breaking the stillness that prevailed; 'is it worth fifty shiners extra, if it's safely done from the outside?'
-- 'Because they're of no use to me, my dear,' replied the Jew, with some confusion, 'not worth the taking.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I can assure you,' she added, 'that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting HIS fancy; for he is a most disagree-able, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
-- Darcy is not so well worth lis-tening to as his friend, is he? poor Eliza! to be only just TOLERABLE.'
-- Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speak- ing to, a wish of being better acquainted with THEM was expressed towards the two eldest.
-- He can be a conversible com-panion if he thinks it worth his while.
-- Elizabeth was the least dear to her of all her children; and though the man and the match were quite good enough for HER, the worth of each was eclipsed by Mr. Bingley and Netherfield.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the best of my calculation, that place where I now was must be that country which, lying between the Em-peror of Morocco's dominions and the negroes, lies waste and uninhabited, except by wild beasts; the negroes having abandoned it and gone farther south for fear of the Moors, and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its barrenness; and indeed, both forsaking it because of the prodigious number of tigers, lions, leopards, and other furious creatures which harbour there; so that the Moors use it for their hunting only, where they go like an army, two or three thousand men at a time; and indeed for near a hundred miles together upon this coast we saw nothing but a waste, uninhabited country by day, and heard nothing but howlings and roaring of wild beasts by night.
-- This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plan-tation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too - for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
-- But that which comforted me more still, was, that last of all, after I had made five or six such voyages as these, and thought I had nothing more to expect from the ship that was worth my meddling with - I say, after all this, I found a great hogshead of bread, three large runlets of rum, or spirits, a box of sugar, and a barrel of fine flour; this was surprising to me, because I had given over expecting any more provisions, except what was spoiled by the water.
-- Thou art not worth to me - no, not the taking off the ground; one of those knives is worth all this heap; I have no manner of use for thee - e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saying.'
-- I lived in this condition near two years more; but my unlucky head, that was always to let me know it was born to make my body miserable, was all these two years filled with projects and designs how, if it were possible, I might get away from this island: for sometimes I was for making an-other voyage to the wreck, though my reason told me that there was nothing left there worth the hazard of my voyage; sometimes for a ramble one way, sometimes another - and I believe verily, if I had had the boat that I went from Sallee in, I should have ventured to sea, bound anywhere, I knew not whither.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fifteen years!my dear Fanny; her life cannot be worth half that purchase."
-- On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
-- Poor Brandon!he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles."
-- "She knows her own worth too well for false shame," replied Edward.
-- I am sure I would rather do any thing in the world than be thought so by a person whose good opinion is so well worth having as yours.
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