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问题: How to use the word "worth"

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1.worth

His mother inherited a farm worth 15,000 dollars a year.
The contract was worth s25 million a year.

2.worth
I went and bought about six dollars' worth of potato chips.
Large numbers of deer now roam the forests and are causing thousands of millions of roubles-worth of damage.

3.worth
For example, a week's worth of food is the amount of food that will last you for a week.
You've got three years' worth of research money to do what you want with.
After an hour and a quarter's-worth of cleansing, toning and pampering, the difference to the way my skin felt was remarkable.

4.worth
He's decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth buying.
If this was what his job required, then the job wasn't really worth having.
Most things worth having never come easy.

5.worth
No one is worth a great deal of sacrifice.
I am spending a lot of money and time on this boat, but it is worth it.
This restaurant is well worth a visit.
It is worth pausing to consider these statements from Mr Davies.

6.worth
He had never met a woman like her, nor had he ever had a woman of her worth as a friend.
The team would have need of a driver of his worth.

7.worth
We both began waving to the crowd for all we were worth.
Push for all you're worth!

8.worth
You get anywhere with legal aid only by playing the system for all it is worth.
...taking an idea and exploiting it for all it's worth.

9.worth
Personal preference will dictate how you drink your whisky. For what it's worth, my feeling is that ice is fine.
I've brought my notes, for what it's worth.

10.worth

It might be worth your while to go to court and ask for the agreement to be changed.
You'll find it well worth your while to learn something of each island's special features before visiting them.