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worth

/wurth/US // wɜrθ //UK // (wɜːθ) //

价值,值得,值得的,值得一提的是

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Definitions

prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : good or important enough to justify: advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
    • : having a value of, or equal in value to, as in money: This vase is worth 12 dollars.
    • : having property to the value or amount of: They are worth millions.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : excellence of character or quality as commanding esteem: women of worth.
    • : usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose: Your worth to the world is inestimable.
    • : value, as in money.
    • : a quantity of something of a specified value: ten cents' worth of candy.
    • : wealth; riches; property or possessions: net worth.

Phrases

  • worth one's weight in gold
  • worth one's while
  • worthy of the name
  • for all one is worth
  • game is not worth the candle
  • get one's money's worth
  • not worth a damn
  • picture is worth a thousand words

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounvalue, estimation associated with something

Examples

  • It’s worth noting that there are plenty of ways to use your skills to combat climate change.

  • So, if you’re looking to stay ahead of the competition, the game of signing up for new social media platforms is worth the candle.

  • For what it’s worth, the Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann is an advisor to the Guaidó government, such as it is.

  • Its 12% stake in the company, purchased for $245 million, was worth more than $4 billion at the initial offering price of $120.

  • For what it’s worth, this single game raised Rodgers’s ranking in our QB Elo ratings from 12th in the league before the season to seventh after Week 1.

  • Freedom of speech, then, is sometimes not worth the trouble that comes with it.

  • So I started to think about anything in my life that would be worth people giving it any amount of time.

  • Where the U.S. once sought to train several divisions worth, the latest effort is for just 3,000 troops.

  • There is reference after reference to the “black community,” “black worth ethic,” and adherence to the “black value system.”

  • It would definitely be wrong for TLC to encourage us to gawk at these men but their story is worth investigating nonetheless.

  • Not a few of these are extremely beautiful, and are well worth growing on this account, quite apart from their peculiarity.

  • They are unique; that lady there is the Du Barry—a portrait worth, alone, six thousand francs.

  • He remembered how his father had execrated this noble enemy, even at the time he declared his worth.

  • In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.

  • They represented, as has been explained, the operation of the system of natural liberty by which every man got what he is worth.