valuable

adj. 有价值的；贵重的；可估价的

n. 贵重物品

adj.

贵重的，宝贵的；有价值的；可评估的；

n.

贵重物品，财宝；

变形

复数：valuables

双语释义

贵重的,珍贵的,值钱的,名贵的 worth a lot of money

宝贵的,有价值的,极有用的 having great usefulness or value

[P] 贵重物品 sth especially sth small such as a piece of jewellery

英英释义

valuable[ 'væljuəbl ]

n.something of value

"all our valuables were stolen"

adj.

having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange

"another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"; "a valuable diamond"

having worth or merit or value

"a valuable friend"

同义词：worthful

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

valuable book有用处的书

valuable help有用的帮助

valuable information有价值的信息

valuable picture值钱的名画

valuable vase名贵的花瓶

～+介词

valuable for对…有用的

valuable for studying English对学习英语很有用

valuable to对…宝贵的

valuable to sb对某人很有用

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

check one's valuables寄存贵重物品

keep valuables把贵重物品藏起来

lock up one's valuables把贵重物品锁起来

steal valuables偷走财宝

词组短语

valuable experience宝贵的经验

valuable information有价值的情报

most valuable player最有价值球员；最优秀选手

valuable consideration n. 与受益价值相等的回报

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“贵重的，有价值的”的意思，其区别是：

valuable指有相当价值，可高价出售的，或有用、有益的东西。

precious指因稀罕、不易得到而很值钱，或因本身的品质而具有极大的价值。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

This old table is a valuable piece of furniture.
这张旧桌子是一件很珍贵的家具。

This painting is very valuable.
这幅绘画非常名贵。

He gave us a valuable insight into the problems of education.
他在教育问题上给我们提供了宝贵的见解。

This experience is valuable to me.
这一经历对我很有用。

权威例句

valuable (adj.)

"of great value or price," 1580s, from value (v.) + -able. As a noun, "a valuable thing," from 1775 (in modern use often in plural). Related: Valuably.

1. A valuable oil is ground out of cotton seed.

棉花籽里可榨出一种有价值的油。

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2. It is suicidal pottering away valuable time.

浪费宝贵的时光等于自杀。

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3. The geological prospecting team ranged over the desert in search of valuable deposits of oil.

地质勘探队走遍了这片沙漠，寻找有开采价值的油层。

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4. Arguing about such details consumed many hours of their valuable time.

在这些细节上争来争去浪费了他们很多宝贵的时光。

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5. A valuable lesson may be gleaned from it by those who have eyes to see.

明眼人可从中记取宝贵的教训。

6. For only one of them is valuable.

因为这里面只有一份礼物是珍贵的。

7. Today, if you have someone who loves you, you have something more valuable than wealth.

现在，如果有人真正爱你的话你就会得到比财富更有价值的东西。

8. If this time is so valuable—for ourselves and our companies—how do we get more of it?

如果对于我们自己和我们的公司来说，这样的时间如此宝贵，那么我们如何更多的得到它呢？

9. You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that?

你可能会学哪些事是以后不会再做的，但是这有什么价值呢？

10. Good: How valuable would this be to you in your job?

好例句：在你的工作中，这能有多大价值？

11. You are valuable, which means they need you as much as you need them.

你是有价值的，这就意味着，他们需要你，正如你也需要他们一样。

12. Mistakes can be enormously valuable, but when you look to others to pay for your mistakes, then you deprive yourself of the opportunity to learn from them.

错误可能具有巨大的价值,但是如果你想让别人来为你的错误付出代价,那你就丧失了从错误中学习的机会。

13. However, we’re using these techniques every day, and we’d expect at least some of them to be valuable to your business.

然后，我们每天都在使用这些技术，我们期待这些技术中的一部分至少能够对你的业务带来价值。

14. Here are some common questions, and objections, we have encountered, the answers to which I think you will find valuable.

这里有一些我们碰到的常见的问题和争议，我认为你会发现这些回答是有价值的。

15. We sketched these relationships on the inside of the book cover, and this is what Alexander enthusiasts consider the only valuable part of our book.

我们把它们的关联画在了这本书的封面上。亚历山大的忠诚拥趸认为这是我们书中唯一有价值的地方。

16. I feel that that period in my life was extremely valuable.

我觉得，那段经历在我的人生中是非常宝贵的。

17. A friend is a living treasure, and if you have one, you have one of the most valuable gifts in life.

朋友是生活中的珍品，如果你有了这样的一个朋友，你就有了一个最宝贵的礼物。

18. Being lonely is terrible. Today, if you have someone who loves you, you have something more valuable than wealth.

孤独是很可怕的。现在，如果有人真正爱你的话你就会得到比财富更有价值的东西。

19. Because they would not have any time to prepare for the meeting, they would not be able to provide him with any valuable input or feedback he was seeking.

因为他们没有任何时间为会议做准备，他们就不能为他提供任何有价值的意见或是他所寻找的反馈信息。

20. But to me, while working, there was nothing more valuable than being with her.

然而对我来说，工作的时候，能和她在一起的时间再宝贵不过了。

21. But to me, while working, there was nothing more valuable than being with her.

然而对我来说，工作的时候，能和她在一起的时间再宝贵不过了。

22. This principle merely states that people will willingly work harder for something that is more valuable to get.

这个原则只不过是说，人们愿意为更有价值的事物努力工作。

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23. Having to redundantly redelete the single word is a small price to pay for being able to recover those six valuable paragraphs.

一个冗余的单词删除，对于能够恢复6个有价值的段落来说是一个小小的代价。

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24. The value of qualitative studies is not limited to helping support the design process. In our experience, spending the time to understand the user population as human beings can provide valuable business insights that are not revealed through traditional market research.

定性研究的价值不仅在于促进设计流程，根据我们的经验，花时间理解具体用户还能够提供传统市场研究所无法发现的宝贵的商业见解。

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25. Interviews need not last longer than about an hour, though follow-up meetings may be called for if a particular stakeholder is identified as an exceptionally valuable source of information.

访谈不要超过一个小时，如果确认某个利益关系人可以提供特别有价值的信息，还可以召开后续会议来继续沟通。

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26. While this can undoubtedly be a valuable tool to uncover one aspect of a user’s mental model, the technique assumes that the subject has refined organizational skills, and that the way that they sort a group of abstract topics will correlate to the way they will end up wanting to use your product. This is clearly not always the case.

卡片分类的确有助于理解用户心理模型的某些方面，但前提是用户必须具备精确的组织能力。 对于抽象主题的分类与期望的产品使用方式存在一定的关联，显然，事情往往并非如此。

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27. This can be quite useful as it allows collaboration to take its course without worry that valuable work will be overwritten.

这对于协作来说非常有用，使用者不必担心自己宝贵的工作会被其他人覆盖。

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28. If you approach ethnographic interviews with a fixed questionnaire, you not only run the risk of alienating the interview subject but can also cause the interviewers to miss out on a wealth of valuable user data.

如果用一组固定的问题来进行人种学调查，你不仅冒着疏远访谈对象的风险，而且也可能会错失丰富而有价值的用户数据。

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29. Similar to stakeholders, SMEs can provide valuable perspectives on a product and its users, but designers should be careful to recognize that SMEs represent a somewhat skewed perspective.

和利益关系人一样，对产品和用户能提供一些有价值的看法。 但设计师应该小心，主题专家们代表了某种有所歪曲的看法。

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30. The problem is that using both text and images is very expensive in terms of pixels. Except in rare circumstances, screen space is far too valuable to use this way.

同时用文本和图像的问题在于像素非常宝贵，一般来说，屏幕空间都太宝贵了，不允许我们这样做。

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31. When these views are provided in completely separate windows, each with its own frame and controls, this idiom becomes quite cumbersome: Windows invariably overlap each other, getting in each other’s way, and valuable screen real estate is squandered with repetitive controls and window frames.

可是当每个视图都有单独的窗口和自己的外边框和控件时，这个习惯用法就变得非常麻烦。 窗口不可避免地相互重叠，彼此影响，有限的屏幕被重复的控件和窗口边框浪费。

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