wit
n. 智慧；才智；智力
n. (Wit)人名；(泰)威；(英、德、波)威特
v. 知道；即
n.
机智；才智，智慧；富有机智的人；打趣话，玩笑话
变形
复数：wits
双语释义
n.(名词)[U] 风趣,妙语 the ability to say things which are both clever and amusing at the same time
[P] 心智,才智 power of thought
英英释义
wit
n.
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
同义词：humorhumourwitticismwittiness
mental ability
同义词：brainbrainpowerlearning abilitymental capacitymentality
a witty amusing person who makes jokes
同义词：wagcard
词组短语
mother wit n. 天生的智力
at one's wit's end不知所措；智穷力竭
同近义词辨析
intellect, wit, wisdom, mind, brain, intelligence这组词都有“智力，智慧”的意思，其区别是：
intellect侧重不受感情或意志左右的冷静思考或领悟能力。
wit指先天的才能、智力、意识等，隐含小聪明意味。
wisdom较文雅，也可指明智的言行。
mind使用广泛，无褒贬之意。强调诸如认识、记忆、思考、决定等的智慧功能。
brain(多用复数brains)强调理解能力和独立的或者首创性的思维能力。
intelligence指处理或对付问题或情况的特殊才智；也指运用、展开智慧的能力。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
智力是幽默的最低形式。
His character is a combination of wit and kindness.
他的性格是智慧与善良的结合。
Sloth tarnishes the edge of wit.
懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
He gave me a taste of his acid wit.
他让我尝到了他敏锐尖刻之机智的滋味。
His keen wit flashes out occasionally.
他的机智不时闪露出来。
The audience rose to his verve and wit.
观众为他那富于才华和机智的表演喝彩欢呼。
Oscar Wilde was a famous wit.
奥斯卡·王尔德是个著名的风趣的人。
用作动词(v.)
He will leave at the end of term, to wit 30 July.
他要在期末离开，也就是7月30日。
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wit
wit: Both the noun wit [OE] and the verb [OE] go back ultimately to the Indo-European base *woid-, *weid-, *wid-. This originally meant ‘see’, in which sense it has given English visible, vision, etc, but it developed metaphorically to ‘know’, and it is this sense that lies behind English wit. The noun to begin with denoted ‘mind, understanding, judgement, sense’ (a meaning preserved in expressions such as ‘keep one’s wits about one’ and ‘slow-witted’), and the modern sense ‘clever humorousness’ did not begin to emerge until the 16th century.The verb has now virtually died out, except in the expression to wit. Witness is etymologically the state of ‘knowing’. Other English words that come from the same Indo-European base or its Germanic descendant include guide, history, idea, story, and twit.=> guide, guise, history, idea, story, twit, vision, wise, witness
wit (n.)
"mental capacity," Old English wit, witt, more commonly gewit "understanding, intellect, sense; knowledge, consciousness, conscience," from Proto-Germanic *wit- (cognates: Old Saxon wit, Old Norse vit, Danish vid, Swedish vett, Old Frisian wit, Old High German wizzi "knowledge, understanding, intelligence, mind," German Witz "wit, witticism, joke," Gothic unwiti "ignorance"), from PIE *weid- "to see," metaphorically "to know" (see vision). Related to Old English witan "to know" (source of wit (v.)). Meaning "ability to connect ideas and express them in an amusing way" is first recorded 1540s; that of "person of wit or learning" is from late 15c. For nuances of usage, see humor.
A witty saying proves nothing. [Voltaire, Diner du Comte de Boulainvilliers]
Wit ought to be five or six degrees above the ideas that form the intelligence of an audience. [Stendhal, "Life of Henry Brulard"] Witjar was old slang (18c.) for "head, skull." Witling (1690s) was "a pretender to wit."
wit (v.)
"to know" (archaic), Old English witan (past tense wast, past participle witen) "to know, beware of or conscious of, understand, observe, ascertain, learn," from Proto-Germanic *witan "to have seen," hence "to know" (cognates: Old Saxon witan, Old Norse vita, Old Frisian wita, Middle Dutch, Dutch weten, Old High German wizzan, German wissen, Gothic witan "to know"), from PIE *weid- (see wit (n.)). The phrase to wit, almost the only surviving use of the verb, is first recorded 1570s, from earlier that is to wit (mid-14c.), probably a loan-translation of Anglo-French cestasavoir, used to render Latin videlicet (see viz.).
1. slashing wit.
讽刺的才智
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
2. Wit bought is better than wit taught.
亲身经验最可贵。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. lambent wit.
巧妙的智慧
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
4. sophisticated wit
老练的机智
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
5. trenchant wit.
锐利的头脑。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
6. incandescent wit
杰出的机智
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
7. present wit
急[机]智
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
8. penetrating wit
机智，敏锐
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
9. Shavian wit.
萧伯纳式的机智
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
10. scintillate with wit
才智敏锐.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
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