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    /ɪnˈvæljəbəl/ · /ɪnˈvæljuəbəl/

    Extremely useful in helping you do something.

    極有用；非常寶貴

    比較級 more invaluable最高級 most invaluable

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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Picture help so useful that you cannot say what it was worth — not because it was worth little, but because no figure would cover it. The in- here does not mean 'not valuable'; it means the value cannot be measured, which is why the word is one of the warmest ways English has to thank someone.

可以想成：某個幫助好用到你說不出它值多少——不是因為不值錢，而是因為沒有一個數字說得完。這裡的 in- 不是「沒有價…更多收起可以想成：某個幫助好用到你說不出它值多少——不是因為不值錢，而是因為沒有一個數字說得完。這裡的 in- 不是「沒有價值」，而是「價值無法計算」。也因為這樣，這個字是英文裡相當溫暖的一種道謝方式。

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

invaluableadj/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/

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    Having great or incalculable value.

    • You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.
    • Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn. It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university.
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    obsoleteNot valuable; valueless; worthless.

    • The money I have received is so invaluable a sum that I have forborne as yet to pay it in, and am heartily sorry that I cannot better advance His Majesty's service.
    • It would be an interesting, and far from an invaluable labour, to trace the history of the murrains, or cattle diseases of former days, and there causes and effects.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。