wit.

wit¹[wit]

• n.
  • 意识；心智
  • [复数]
    • 智力；智能；理解力
    • (清醒的)头脑
  • 机智
  • • 措辞巧妙的能力
    • 善辩的能力
    • 机智的人；才子
    • 打趣话；玩笑话；诙谐话
  • [古语]理智
  • [古语]哲人；智者
• 近义词:

  humor.irony.satire.repartee

• 短语:
  • at one's wit's end 穷于应付；不知所措；智穷才竭；想尽了办法；黔驴技穷
  • Attic wit(或 salt) 妙语；警语；雅而不俗的俏皮话
  • collect one's wits (或 faculty) 不慌乱；镇定下来
  • do to wit 使知道；使懂得
  • drive someone out of his wits (或 mind) 使某人神经紧张不安；使不知所措；逼得某人发狂
  • drive someone to his wits' end 使某人智穷力竭；使某人一筹莫展；使某人不知所措
  • frighten (或 scare) someone out of his wits [口语]吓得某人惊慌失措(或魂不附体)
  • Good wits jump. [谚语]英雄所见略同。
  • have a quick (或 ready) wit 有急智；机敏[亦作 have quick wits]
  • have a slow wit 蠢；头脑迟钝[亦作 have slow wits]
  • have (或 keep)one's wits about one
    • 警觉；保持机警；随时戒备；保持镇静，头脑冷静
    • 精明；足智多谋；机敏，有灵活的头脑
  • have the wit to do (或 say) something 有充分的头脑去做某事(或说某话)
  • live by (或 on)one's wits
    • 靠耍小聪明混日子，东拼西凑地过日子
    • 靠不诚实的手段过活，(无固定职业者)靠骗人为生，靠欺骗过日子
  • lost of wits 愚蠢；痴呆；昏聩
  • more wit in his little finger than in your whole body 他比你聪明千百倍
  • One's wits are gone wool-gathering. 想入非非；心不在焉，出神。
  • out of one's wits 不知所措；精神错乱；发疯，发狂
  • rack one's wits (或 brains) 苦思冥想，绞尽脑汁

wit²[wit]

• wist, witting [古语](使)知道[wit 的现在陈述式人称变化如下：第一人称单数为 (I)wot,(thou) wost 或 wot(t)est; 第三人称单数为 wot 或 wot(t) eth,复数为 wite 或 witen]
• 短语:
  • to wit 即，就是

• on the face of
• a whoop and a holler
• bonheur-du-jour
• mandelonitrile
• sportswriting
• underlayment
• oil of peppermint
• anything of the kind
• hydrostatic balance
• noncooperation
• zinc sulphide
• bridge-a-phobia
• sign sth ↔ out
• have had it
• hand in hand
• the three Magi
• descending chain condition
• arkwright furniture
• Symmachus, Saint
• salmonids
• Rockers
• dwarfishnesses
• princeling
• under the auspices of sb/sth
• enkindle
• congregate housing
• in power
• absently
• morphological astronomy
• ammonium salt
• ananthous
• intersects
• fie
• porny
• ooms
• antagonizes
• dollhouses
• speedometers
• w.p.a
• dihedral reflector
• slight
• have sb / sth at your feet
• experience religion
• telluro-
• authorized versions
• spit in someone's face
• waitstaffs
• basement complex
• not exchange more than a half a dozen words with
• musketeers
• St Joe
• remodeled
• mammography
• go (like) a bomb
• exhumator
• Clausewitz, Karl von
• leiter
• adspeaks
• bouncing Bets
• get one's innings
• International Court of Justice
• hard-foughts
• loneness
• parrotries
• quayage
• consumer price index
• roll out the welcome mat
• geotectonic cycle
• hunt down
• crystal moth
• outlawings
• Pepysian
• sambhur
• shoot one's lunch (或 cookies)
• tervalency
• thrifty fashion
• chalking
• cfas
• open roadstead
• advance agent
• brisk
• analytical cubism
• down the middle
• bully off
• aperture stop
• coxcomb
• strangler
• bring one's hogs to a the wrong market
• Advocate Depute
• Schaeffer acid
• yatterings
• burn itself out
• be purposed
• macrobiotically
• wharfless
• pour down the throat
• botanica
• squalidities
• damagingly
• luminous energies