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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, though the sailors' vengeance was satisfied, their curiosity was not; they knew the brute had no very delicate appetite, and the contents of his stomach might be worth investigation.
-- It would scarcely take thirty-six hours to go through them, and the moving panorama on both sides, seen in all the clearness and glory of the light of a southern sun, was well worth the trouble of looking at and admiring.
-- Thalcave was a consummate horseman, and to see him on his prancing steed was a sight worth looking at.
-- But still I should like them to be submitted to a final examination, in order to make their worth incontestable and uncontested."
-- "He's a fellow that's worth hanging, and no mistake," said Glenarvan to the quartermaster.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, it depends upon what you think worth reporting.'
-- 'I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting.'
-- Well, well, Mr. Holmes, you'll excuse my troubling you about such a trifle ' 'I think it's well worth troubling about.'
-- 'If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place.
-- No, my dear fellow; we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we have no case at pres-ent, and that it is worth our while to run any risk in order to establish one.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says my brother cut off the gold tassels from my father's coffin, at night because they're worth a lot ofmoney!'
-- Next morning my father happened to give me two government loan bonds to sell, worth nearly five thousand roubles each.
-- 'Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all!It fitted into the conversation ' 'You probably wish to deduce, prince,' said Alexandra, 'that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless trea-sures.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is an indescribably faint line in the matter of man's apparel which somehow divides for her those who are worth glancing at and those who are not.
-- She was struck with the evidences of wealth, although there was, perhaps, not a person on the street worth more than a hundred thousand dollars.
-- Drouet immediately conceived a notion of him as being some one worth knowing, and was glad not only to meet him, but to visit the Adams Street bar thereafter whenever he wanted a drink or a cigar.
-- He imagined that she would have nothing at all of the things he thought worth while.
-- Drouet had ability in this line himself when the game was worth the candle, but he was too much the egotist to reach the polish which Hurstwood possessed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warn't worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.
-- I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a min-ute I see I was mistaken that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, when my breath sort of hitched, he being so un-expected; but right away after I see I warn't scared of him worth bothring about.
-- Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog.
-- Thinks I, the old man will be glad when he sees this she's worth ten dollars.
-- I took fish-lines and matches and other things everything that was worth a cent.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at me!I have never grown higher than a penny's worth of cheese."
扩展阅读：