worth

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /wɜːθ/    美 /wɝθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Value. countable,uncountable
    — I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
  2. Merit, excellence. uncountable
    — Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
  3. An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time. uncountable
    — 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.
  4. High social standing, noble rank. obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To be, become, betide. obsolete
    — Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for. not-comparable
    — 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.
  2. Deserving of. not-comparable
    — This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.
  3. Valuable, worthwhile. not-comparable,obsolete
  4. Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating. not-comparable
    — This job is hardly worth the effort.

词形变化

worths plural worths present,singular,third-person worthing participle,present worth past worthed past worth participle,past worthed participle,past worthen participle,past word alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush all one's life is worth all that one's life is worth all that one's life's worth an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure a picture is worth a thousand words an image is worth a thousand words dime's worth for all one is worth for what it's worth FWIW juice is worth the squeeze not worth a brass farthing not worth a Continental not worth a cress not worth a curse not worth a dime not worth a plugged nickel not worth a plug nickel not worth a tinker's curse not worth a whistle not worth hell room not worth salt not worth the candle not worth the paper it is printed on not worth the powder not worth the powder and shot not worth writing home about play it for all it's worth the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take the game is not worth the candle the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take tuppence-worth two cents' worth unworth worth a Jew's eye worth every penny worthful worth it worth its weight in gold worthless worth one's salt worth one's weight in gold worth one's weight in salt worth one's while worth seeing worth the whistle worth while worthwhile worthy your blood's worth bottling your network is your net worth your net worth is your network

词源

词源 1
From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”) (the source of Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”), etc), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”).
词源 2
From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”).
Cognate with Dutch worden, dated Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.
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