(1) worth可作形容词，常接名词、代词、动名词或量词作宾语，有以下几个意思：
①价值为……
- A: Can you guess how much the shirt is worth ?
你能猜出这件衬衫值多少钱吗？
B: It's worth at least $5.
它至少值5美元。
②价值与……相符；顶得上。
- The coat is not at all worth what is charged for it.
这件上衣根本不值这一要价。 - A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过二鸟在林。/多得不如现得。
③“值得”，后接名词、代词、动名词。
- I think the book well worth publication.
我认为这书很值得出版。 - Don't lock the door. It isn't worth the trouble.
不用锁门，不值得这么麻烦。 - He is not worth helping.
他不值一帮。 - Some people asked the question whether it was worth (making) the effort.
有些人问这么一个问题：这件事是否值得费这个劲。
④拥有(家产)。
- He himself didn't know what he was worth .
连他也不知道自己有多少家产。 - He was worth millions of dollars.
他身价高达数百万美元。
⑤worth有时又可作名词，意为“价值；(多少)价值的物品”。
- The worth of this book was not realized until 50 years after his death.
直到他死后50年，人们才认识到这本书的价值。 - Will you change this pound note for a pound-worth of pennies?
你能把这张钞票换成一英镑面值的硬币吗？ - She bought 5 dollar's worth of books.
她买了价值为5美元的书。
⑥worth还可作“价钱，价格；财产，资产”解。
- The painting's worth was estimated at upward of half a million dollars.
这幅画的价值据估计值50多万美元。 - The appraiser put a worth of thousand dollars on the ring.
估价人员给此戒指估价为1 000美元。 - His net worth was reckoned at over a thousand million dollars.
据估计他的净资产超过10亿美元。
(2) worth (one's) while意为“值得(做某事)；有好处”，后接动词不定式或动名词。
- Do you think it is worth (its) while to cycle so far to see the football match?
你认为这么远骑自行车看这场足球赛值得吗？ - It's not worth (its) while quarrelling with that man. Let's go.
不值得与那个人争吵，咱们走吧。 - I'll devote my life to the sacred cause. This is worth while .
我要将我的一生献给这个神圣的事业，这样做很值得。
(3) worthy of意为“值得……；配得上……；应得到……”，通常接意义较好的词。
- He was a state leader worthy of great respect.
他是一位值得尊重的国家领导人。 - There occurred nothing worthy of being mentioned. (worthy to be mentioned)
那儿没发生什么值得一提的事情。 - Do you think you are worthy of her?
你认为你配得上她吗？
(4) worthy to do意为“值得……；配得上……”，常接不定式的被动式。
- I don't think he is worthy to be given the position.
我认为他不配被给予这个职位。
(5) ①deserve意为“值得……；应得到/受到……”，后接表示称赞、批评、惩罚等意思的词，可接名词、代词、不定式动名词或从句。
- She said she didn't deserve the praise.
她说她不值得这么称赞。 - Do you think you deserve your wages?
你认为你应得到你的这些薪水吗？ - The success you've achieved deserves to be congratulated on .
你获得的成功值得庆贺。 - That fellow certainly deserves to be punished/to be sent to prison.
这个家伙当然应受惩罚/被关进监狱。 - The boy richly deserves whipping.
这孩子真该挨一顿鞭子。 - He said that he really didn't deserve I should be so kind to him.
他说我对他这么好，他实在不敢当。
②可用于deserve well of sb.和deserve ill of sb.短语，前者意为“应受到(某人)良好对待”；后者意为“应受到(某人)惩罚”。
- Mr. Jones deserved rather better of his employer than to be pensioned off at a few pounds a week.
琼斯先生应该受到雇主更好的待遇才是，而不应一周只给几镑钱就把他打发走。 - He deserves ill of his country .
他应受到国家的惩罚。
③现在分词deserving用作形容词，可与of连用，意思是“应受到……；值得……”，可接意义好的词，也可接意义坏的词。
- He committed a crime deserving of a severe punishment.
他犯了应受重罚的罪。 - Such people will absolutely not be deserving of trust.
这种人绝对不值得信任。
