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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding, the thing was well worth while trying, and a part of Pencroft's large checked handkerchief was soon reduced to the state of a half-burnt rag.
-- "I have looked in vain for anything that's worth the trouble of stooping for."
-- The place was well worth looking at.
-- "Ah!if we only had a proper boat and a good harpoon, I would say 'After the beast,' for he would be well worth the trouble of catching!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Free of the room, the boy was not slow in taking his departure; when he had gone, and the child was occupied in clearing the table, the old man said:'I haven't seemed to thank you, sir, for what you have done to-night, but I do thank you humbly and heartily, and so does she, and her thanks are better worth than mine.
-- 'I couldn't do it really,' said Quilp with unusual politeness, 'though I tell you what and this is a circumstance worth bearing in mind as showing how the sharpest among us may be taken in sometimes I was so deceived by the penurious way in which you lived, alone with Nelly ''All done to save money for tempting fortune, and to make her triumph greater,' cried the old man.
-- There was one piece of gold among it, and an emergency might come when its worth to them would be increased a hundred fold.
-- But we've been playing a little on the road to-day, and we come out with a new wardrobe at the races, so I didn't think it worth while to stop to undress.
-- 'The older a dwarf is, the better worth he is,' returned Mr Vuffin; 'a grey-headed dwarf, well wrinkled, is beyond all suspicion.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wine attracted her, not because of its taste, but because it enabled her to forget her past life, to comfort herself with ease, and the confidence of her own worth that it gave her.
-- "Is it worth while leading a good, moral life?"
-- He gave a ruble to a blind beggar; the servants received as tips fifteen rubles, and when Sophia Ivanovna's lap-dog, Suzette, hurt her leg so that it bled, he volunteered to bandage it, and without a moment's consideration tore his fine linen handkerchief (Sophia Ivanovna knew that those handkerchiefs were worth fifteen rubles a dozen) and made bandages of it for the dog.
-- "It isn't worth while to alter my mode of life while Maslova's affair is unsettled," he thought.
-- "You have seen that fellow; he is worth twelve millions, and is the meanest skinflint I ever met."
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to.'
-- And a great many voices all said together ('like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), 'Don't keep him waiting, child!Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'
-- The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!'
-- Why, the smoke alone is worth a thousand pounds a puff!'
-- Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Jim," he said, "you're the only one here that's worth anything, and you know I've been always good to you.
-- It was plain from every line of his body that our new hand was worth his salt.
-- I was to go down the sandy spit that divides the anchorage on the east from the open sea, find the white rock I had observed last evening, and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben Gunn had hidden his boat, a thing quite worth doing, as I still believe.
-- Not much worth to fight, you ain't.
-- "Leastways, if you don't, I do; and I wait here and I'm still your cap'n, mind till you outs with your grievances and I reply; in the meantime, your black spot ain't worth a biscuit.
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