be worthwhile

基本解释

Our efforts will be worthwhile.
我们的努力会是值得的。
If the game will cater more towards expert users, it may be worthwhile tosacrifice some simplicity and learnability in favor of more efficient controls.
如果游戏更多的是面向高级用户，那么牺牲一些简洁和易学性、以此获得更高效的操作，这是值得的。
But capacity does not equal electricity. For all those turbines to be worthwhile, the wind has to blow in specific places at specific strengths for specific periods of time.
但是总转机容量不等于电力，对所有有价值的风力涡轮机来说，风必须在特定的时间段以特定的强度吹到特定的地方。

While it may not be worthwhile for older patients, younger patients are more likely to regard anything that gives them a lifelong working knee joint as well worth the cost.
The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.
雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。
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Only those in other words engaged in the continual struggle to clarify their thinking to remove sources of contradiction and incoherence only those people can be said to live worthwhile lives.
换言之，也仅有那些身处,持恒挣扎于厘清其思维的人,于移除矛盾及无条理源头的人,仅有那些人,才称得上是值得活的生命。
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Attacks need only work enough of the time—say, in 1% of cases—to be worthwhile.
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