worth的意思|worth的解释-里氏词典

worth [wә:θ]

n. 价值, 财产

a. 值...的, 值得的

[经] 价值

worth

[ noun ]

an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

<noun.quantity>

10 dollars worth of gasoline

the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful

<noun.attribute>

French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895)

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

worthy of being treated in a particular way

<adj.all>

an idea worth considering

the deserving poor

having a specified value

<adj.all>

not worth his salt

worth her weight in gold

Worth \Worth\, v. i. [OE. worthen, wur[thorn]en, to become, AS.
weor[eth]an; akin to OS. wer[eth]an, D. worden, G. werden,
OHG. werdan, Icel. ver[eth]a, Sw. varda, Goth. wa['i]rpan, L.
vertere to turn, Skr. v[.r]t, v. i., to turn, to roll, to
become. [root]143. Cf. {Verse}, -{ward}, {Weird}.]
To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases,
woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb
is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in
the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are
equivalent phrases.

I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe. --Piers
Plowman.

He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray. --Chaucer.

Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wurE;
akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eth], D. waard, OHG. werd, G.
wert, werth, Icel. ver[eth]r, Sw. v["a]rd, Dan. v[ae]rd,
Goth. wa['i]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. {Stalwart},
{Ware} an article of merchandise, {Worship}.]
1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]

It was not worth to make it wise. --Chaucer.

2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
be exchanged for.

A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak.

All our doings without charity are nothing worth.
--Bk. of Com.
Prayer.

If your arguments produce no conviction, they are
worth nothing to me. --Beattie.

3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
good sense.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
--Milton.

This is life indeed, life worth preserving.
--Addison.

4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to
the value of.

At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty
hundred crowns. --Addison.

{Worth while}, or {Worth the while}. See under {While}, n.

Worth \Worth\, n. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth],
wur[eth]; weor[eth], wur[eth], adj. See {Worth}, a.]
1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or
useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything
useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed
in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

What 's worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring? --Hudibras.

2. Value in respect of moral or personal qualities;
excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness;
as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

To be of worth, and worthy estimation. --Shak.

As none but she, who in that court did dwell,
Could know such worth, or worth describe so well.
--Waller.

To think how modest worth neglected lies.
--Shenstone.

Syn: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.

At Dec. 31, Citicorp Savings had assets of $4.98 billion and regulatory net worth of $907.3 million, according to federal reports.
That the chancellor announces something which has long been known is barely worth reporting.
He also played down the seriousness of the decline, claiming that existing reserves still amount to the equivalent of eight months worth of exports.
HALL & TAWSE, the const ruction division of Raine Industries, has won hospital development contracts worth Pounds 7.3m. An orthopaedic centre and two operating theatres are being built at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen by Hall & Tawse Scotland.
The rally followed a surge of buying on Wednesday and may reflect the market's uneasiness about the government's plan to ship $10 million worth of U.S. pork bellies to Poland as part of a food-aid package.
But as Warburg's move clearly indicates, making markets in many companies' shares may no longer be worth the effort.
(By cloning he means not egg-splitting but replicating an existing or deceased person: 'I've never met anyone in the world who is worth cloning, and that's been my stock answer for 10 years.') Another was implanting human embryos in animals.
The challenge here is obvious: If the public is going to pay its officials more money, how does it make sure that it gets its money's worth?
Since most going concerns are worth more than the value of their underlying assets, most corporate acquisitions involve some good will.
Forbes, whose worth has been estimated at $400 million to $1 billion, had made his last birthday, in August, his biggest.
Nov. 2 _ The Texas Supreme Court refuses to hear Texaco's appeal, letting stand the judgment against Texaco, now worth $10.3 billion.
Ironically as the country struggles with the effect of growing capital inflows, the deal which reduces Poland's overall indebtedness to Dollars 38bn should lead to foreign investment worth an additional Dollars 1bn a year.
A farm is defined as a place that sold agricultural products worth $1,000 or more in the previous year.
The Census Bureau reckons that the typical household's net worth didn't change significantly between 1984 and 1988.
For a paper deal worth a mere Pounds 105m, ADT now claims to have written off as goodwill the sum of Dollars 278m.
That is something worth doing regardless of cost or effectiveness.
Rocketdyne officials did not put a price on each engine but said the company's contract to develop it was worth about $30 million.
More important, it is worth envisioning what would happen if the Security Council did, for the sake of regionalism alone, "empower" a country like Brazil.
The utility plans to finance the station with Dollars 40m of its own capital, credits worth Dollars 48m, and a share placement of Dollars 74m.
With a $220 million negative net worth, we're insolvent."
The FBI said one expert estimated all the volumes and papers could be worth up to $40 million.
Experts estimate that emeralds worth at least another Dollars 150m are smuggled out of the country each year.
Ornakian and the others reckon that the money they make from each trip _ the equivalent in Lebanese pounds of about $250 _ is worth the chance.
As he puts it, "Anything called the national pastime is worth caring about."
As soon as the house is repossessed it will start deteriorating and it will be worth a lot less than I could sell it for now if the building society would only let me.
Christopher Burge, president of Christie's in New York, estimated recently that "Roulin" would be worth roughly the same at auction as van Gogh's "Irises," which brought $53.9 million in 1987.
Today, his 1,000 acres of land and the sheep on it are worth less than half what they were four years ago.
Investor's Bank, which is 77.3 percent controlled by the Boston-based interstate bank Eaton Vance Corp., already holds custody assets worth an estimated $9 billion.
Airline analysts said they think AMR could be worth more than $120 a share, or more than $7.2 billion, based on measures used in the recent $3.65 billion takeover of NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Airlines, by Los Angeles investor Alfred Checchi.
The ConAgra merger, a stock swap arrangement, would be worth about $60 a share to Holly Farms stockholders.

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