wit
noun /wɪt/
/wɪt/
Word Family
Idioms - wit noun
- witty adjective
- witticism noun
- outwit verb
措辞巧妙的能力;风趣;才思 - to have a quick/sharp/dry/ready wit
才思敏捷;敏锐机智;假装正经的诙谐;头脑机敏 - a woman of wit and intelligence
才思敏捷、聪颖的女子 - a book full of the wit and wisdom of his 30 years in politics
一本有关他 30 年政治生涯中才思与智慧的书
Topics Personal qualitiesc1- He had a dry wit.
他很会讽刺挖苦。 - He has plenty of wit and imagination.
他说话很风趣,也富于想象力。 - He was blessed with great charm and a quick wit.
他极富魅力,才思敏捷。 - I wanted to bowl him over with my sparkling wit.
我想用我的聪明才智把他打倒。 - She had to use all her native wit to convince the police.
她不得不绞尽脑汁去说服警察。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- quick
- ready
- …
- have
- wit and wisdom
- to have a quick/sharp/dry/ready wit
- [countable] a person who has the ability to say or write things that are both clever and humorous
才思敏捷说话诙谐的人;机智幽默的人 - a well-known wit and raconteur
一位闻名遐迩、妙语连珠的故事大王
- a well-known wit and raconteur
- wits[plural] your ability to think quickly and clearly and to make good decisions
理解力;颖悟力;头脑;智力 - He needed all his wits to find his way out.
他需要绞尽脑汁找到出路。 - The game was a long battle of wits.
这场游戏是长时间的斗智。 - Kate paused and gathered her wits.
凯特停下来恢复一下理智。 - a chance to pit your wits against (= compete with, using your intelligence) our quiz champion
用你的智慧同我们的知识竞赛冠军进行较量的机会
- She couldn't seem to gather her wits and tell us what had happened.
她好像还没有恢复理智,还不能告诉我们发生了什么事情。 - The game allows you to match wits with a computer criminal.
这个游戏可以让你与计算机罪犯斗智斗勇。 - The strike developed into a battle of wits between management and workers.
这场罢工发展成为劳资双方智慧的较量。 - Living alone in the country had dulled his wits.
在乡下独自生活磨灭了他的才思。
Collocations Dictionaryverb + wits- use
- have
- gather
- …
- a battle of wits
- have your wits about you
- keep your wits about you
- …
- He needed all his wits to find his way out.
- -witted(in adjectives
) having the type of intelligence mentioned构成形容词 有…智慧的;头脑…的 - a quick-witted group of students
一群头脑聪明的学生
- a quick-witted group of students
- [uncountable] wit to do something the intelligence or good sense to know what is the right thing to do
(正确判断的)能力,智力;明智 - At least you had the wit to ask for help.
你起码还能意识到要求救。 - It should not be beyond the wit of man to resolve this dispute.
解决这一纠纷应当是人力所能及的事。
- I hope he has the wit to take the key with him.
我希望他还知道带钥匙。 - I hope you had the wits to apologize.
我希望你能认识到错误去道歉。 - You'd think they'd have the wit to ask for help.
你会认为他们会机智地寻求帮助。 - It shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to solve this issue.
解决这个问题不应该超出人类的智慧。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- native
- have
- use
- beyond the wit of man
see also witless - At least you had the wit to ask for help.
词源Old English wit(t), gewit(t), denoting the mind as the seat of consciousness, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weet and German Witz, also to wit in the archaic sense ‘have knowledge’.
Idioms
be at your wits’ end
- (informal) to be so worried by a problem that you do not know what to do next
智穷计尽;全然不知所措 - She was at her wits’ end wondering how she’d manage it all in the time.
她不知如何在这段时间里处理好这一切。 - I'm at my wits' end trying to cope with his moods.
我想让他平静下来,可完全不知道该怎么办。
- She was at her wits’ end wondering how she’d manage it all in the time.
be frightened/scared/terrified out of your wits
(also to frighten/scare the wits out of somebody)
- to be very frightened; to frighten somebody very much
吓得魂不附体 - I was scared out of my wits!
我被吓得魂都没了! - The latest news has scared the wits out of investors.
最新的消息把投资者吓坏了。
- I was scared out of my wits!
have/keep your wits about you
- to be aware of what is happening around you and ready to think and act quickly
时刻保持头脑冷静;随机应变 - They do tough interviews so you'll need to have your wits about you.
他们的面试很难对付,所以你得保持头脑清醒。
- They do tough interviews so you'll need to have your wits about you.
live by your wits
- to earn money by clever or sometimes dishonest means
靠耍小聪明赚钱;(有时)靠玩花招捞钱
to wit
- (old-fashioned, formal) you use to wit when you are about to be more exact about something that you have just referred to
也就是说;即 - Pilot error, to wit failure to follow procedures, was the cause of the accident.
飞行员的失误,即没有遵守操作程序,是事故的原因。
- Pilot error, to wit failure to follow procedures, was the cause of the accident.