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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My weak point was touched; and I forgot, for a moment, that the contemplation of these sublime subjects was not worth the loss of liberty.
-- Some of these pearls were larger than a pigeon's egg, and were worth as much, and more than that which the traveller Tavernier sold to the Shah of Persia for three millions, and surpassed the one in the possession of the Imaum of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivalled in the world.
-- "And," I added, "this bird, suitably prepared, is worth knife and fork."
-- "A shell is not worth the life of a man," said I.
-- The Astrolabe and the Zelee, incessantly tossed about by the hurricane, could not be worth the Nautilus, quiet repository of labour that she is, truly motionless in the midst of the waters.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun flushed dark "But anything really worth while?
-- It is a question which is worth more to me, my pleasant liberty of conduct, or my hat."
-- "Do you really think, Rupert," she asked, as if Ursula were not present, "do you really think it is worth while?
-- "Do you think it would be worth a week's wages?"
-- I'd put 'em bloody-well down this second "The younger man looked after Gudrun and Ursula objectively, as if he wished to calculate what there might be, that was worth his week's wages.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it worth keeping?'
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