worthless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无价值的， 无用的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have already explained that the testimony of the postmaster shows that the test was worthless and that we have no proof one way or the other.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How, oh how, have I offended the Almighty, that He should bring this curse upon me!Answer, you worthless villain, answer!'
-- 'Gania and Varia and Ptitsin are a worthless lot!I shall not quarrel with them; but from this moment our feet shall not travel the same road.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fools, for having thought of building this weak and worthless wall.
-- A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound; when I wound a man though I but graze his skin it is another mat-ter, for my weapon will lay him low.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulg-ing in our favorite pursuit.
-- As there was nothing improbable to an Indian in the manner of the escape, Magua admitted the truth of what he had heard, with a readiness that afforded additional ev-idence how little he would prize such worthless captives.
-- The savage spurned the worthless rags, and perceiving that the shawl had already become a prize to another, his bantering but sullen smile changing to a gleam of ferocity, he dashed the head of the infant against a rock, and cast its quivering remains to her very feet.
-- David, perceiving that he was left alone, utterly disregarded as a subject too worthless even to destroy, threw his long limb across the saddle of the beast they had deserted, and made such progress in the pursuit as the difficulties of the path permitted.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over and above these trifling penalties, his name was erased and blotted out from the roll of attorneys; which erasure has been always held in these latter times to be a great degradation and reproach, and to imply the commission of some amazing villany as indeed it would seem to be the case, when so many worthless names remain among its better records, unmolested.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should never believe that worthless woman."
-- And when, sickly and depraved from the unhealthy work, from drink and lewdness, foo lish and capricious, he aimlessly prowled around the city, as in a dream, entered some shed and abstracted a few worthless mats, then, instead of destroying the causes that led this boy into his present condition, we intend to mend matters by punishing him!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you, you worthless ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter in law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash .
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Willoughby, he, whom only half an hour ago she had abhorred as the most worthless of men, Willoughby, in spite of all his faults, excited a degree of commiseration for the sufferings produced by them, which made her think of him as now separated for ever from her family, with a tenderness, a regret, rather in proportion, as she soon acknowledged within herself to his wishes than to his merits.
-- "His regard for her, infinitely surpassing anything that Willoughby ever felt or feigned, as much more warm, as more sincere or constant which ever we are to call it has subsisted through all the knowledge of dear Marianne's unhappy prepossession for that worthless young man! and without selfishness without encouraging a hope! could he have seen her happy with another Such a noble mind! such openness, such sincerity! no one can be deceived in HIM."
-- Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford. "I do think," she continued, "nothing was ever carried on so sly; for it was but two days before Lucy called and sat a couple of hours with me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man in his situation who comes, after a long round of worthless or hardening experiences, upon a young, unsophisticated, innocent soul, is apt either to hold aloof, out of a sense of his own remoteness, or to draw near and become fascinated and elated by his discovery.
-- "Damned old cur," wiping the slush from his worthless coat.
-- For the first time, it was being borne in upon her how silly and worthless had been her earlier reading, as a whole.
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