Picture weighing something to see if it comes up to a line: is there enough here to deserve respect, attention, support? Worthy is the verdict that it does come up to the line. English then hangs several fixed phrases on that verdict, including a joking one people use to praise a friend.
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Worthyname
- 1
A surname.
- 2
A hamlet in Porlock parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8548).
worthyadj詞源 1/ˈwɜː.ði/
- 1
Having worth, merit, or value.
- These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities
- This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.
- 2
Admirable or honourable.
- that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
- 3
Deserving, or having sufficient worth.
- 1 And I saw in þe right hand of him that sate on the Throne, a booke written within, & on the backeside, sealed with seuen seales. 2 And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loude voice; Who is worthy to open the booke, and to loose the seales thereof? 3 And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the booke, neither to looke thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to reade the booke, neither to looke thereon.
- [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, […]
- 4
Suited; suitable; befitting.
- No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
- […] whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
worthynoun詞源 1/ˈwɜː.ði/
- 1
A distinguished or eminent person.
- That worthy one day, in our absence, being caught in the act of culpable talpicide, was rebuked by his mistress for disobeying his master's orders.
- 2
a good, wise and virtuous person.
- Confucius and Mencius are revered as the sages and worthies of Confucianism.
worthyverb詞源 2/ˈwɜː.ði/
- 1
To render or treat as worthy.
- And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king […]
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。