英汉词典

wit 基本解释

• n. 智慧；才智；智力
• n. (Wit)人名；(泰)威；(英、德、波)威特
• v. 知道；即

wit 词态变化

wit 中文词源

来自PIE*weid,看，知道，词源同visit,wise。引申词义见多思广，智慧。

wit 英文词源

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]

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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.).

wit 词组搭配

wit 英文释义

1. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

2. mental ability;

"he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

3. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

wit 同义词解析

mind, intellect, intelligence, brains, wit, wisdom

这些名词均有"智力，智慧"之意。

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。

intellect： 侧重不受感情或意志左右的冷静思考或领悟能力。

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。

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。

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。

wit 双语例句

1. Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.

福尔摩斯爱交际，非常风趣，兴趣广泛。

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2. His abrasive wit and caustic comments were an interviewer's nightmare.

他睿智刁钻，评论尖刻，对任何采访他的人而言都是梦魇。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The essays could do with a flash of wit or humor.

这些散文需要一些出其不意的风趣或幽默。

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4. Julie Burchill is famous for her precocity and rapier wit.

朱莉·伯奇尔因其早慧和机敏而闻名。

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5. He was a man of great charm and not inconsiderable wit.

他是魅力十足、机智过人的男人。

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wit 实用场景例句

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

牛津词典

a woman of wit and intelligence

才思敏捷、聪颖的女子

牛津词典

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

牛津词典

a well-known wit and raconteur

一位闻名遐迩、妙语连珠的故事大王

牛津词典

He needed all his wits to find his way out.

他需要绞尽脑汁找到出路。

牛津词典

The game was a long battle of wits .

这场游戏是长时间的斗智。

牛津词典

Kate paused and gathered her wits .

凯特停下来恢复一下理智。

牛津词典

a chance to pit your wits against (= compete with, using your intelligence) our quiz champion

利用你的智慧同我们的知识竞赛冠军进行较量的机会

牛津词典

a quick-witted group of students

一群头脑聪明的学生

牛津词典

At least you had the wit to ask for help.

你起码还能意识到要求救。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

Boulding was known for his biting wit...

博尔丁爱说尖酸的俏皮话是出了名的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They love her practical attitude to life, her zest and wit.

他们喜欢她务实的人生态度、她的热情和幽默。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.

福尔摩斯爱交际,非常风趣，兴趣广泛。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it.

资料就摆在那儿，等着有头脑的人去利用。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today.

她凭借个人才智升到了今天的职位。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident.

你把我们吓坏了，我们听说你出事了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a huge bass drum which frightened the wits out of the organist each time it was banged.

每次敲起来都让风琴师惊慌失措的巨型低音鼓

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Travellers need to keep their wits about them.

旅行者需要随机应变。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We row a lot and we never have time on our own. I'm at my wit's end.

我们经常争吵，从无在一起的时间，我真是没有办法了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning.

他不得不与一个冷静、聪明而又狡猾的对手斗智。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He'd like 'happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit 'Major affective disorder, pleasant type'.

他想给“幸福”一个更为科学的新称谓，准确地说即“愉悦型重度情感障碍”。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Better a witty fool man than a foolish wit.

宁做聪明的傻子,不做愚蠢的聪明人.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Boys gravitate towards girls at that age.

男孩们被大门口的女孩们吸引了.

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