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Putting something on a scale and reading off how much it is 'good for' — how much value it carries. The most concrete reading is money: this is worth ten dollars. From that single act of weighing value, everything fans out: worth as 'good enough to be repaid by' (worth doing), worth as how rich a person is, and worth as the noun 'value' itself.

可以想成把一樣東西放上秤，量它「值多少、抵得上多少」。最具體的讀法就是錢：this is worth ten dol…更多收起可以想成把一樣東西放上秤，量它「值多少、抵得上多少」。最具體的讀法就是錢：this is worth ten dollars（這個值十塊）。從這個「秤量價值」的動作往外散開：值不值得（做了能換回相稱的好處）、一個人身家多少、以及名詞的「價值」本身——全都是同一桿秤上的讀數。

原始詞典資料21 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。

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worthadj詞源 1/ˈwɜːθ/

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    Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

    • How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale.
    • Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
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    Deserving of.

    • This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.
    • He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.
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    obsoleteValuable, worthwhile.

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    Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

    • This job is hardly worth the effort.

worthnoun詞源 1/ˈwɜːθ/

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    Value.

    • I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
    • They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
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    Merit, excellence.

    • Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
    • Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
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    An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.

    • Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data.
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    obsoleteHigh social standing, noble rank.

    • VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […] No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account, For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like.

worthverb詞源 2/ˈwɜːθ/

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    obsoleteTo be, become, betide.

    • Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
    • For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。