wit.
美 [wɪt]
英 [wɪt] 
- n.智力;风趣;才思;头脑
- v.(wist ) 〔古语〕知道
- 网络目击者;魔女的使命;中外建筑设计机构与比较
例句
We have found in her a woman of wit and intelligence , with a master's degree in business administration .
我们发现她是一位充满幽默感和智慧的女士,有商务管理硕士的学位。
But the gibs have persisted, perhaps because, as is often true in a country famed for sharp wit, the joking masks serious messages.
但讥笑声不断,或许是因为这个国家以这样的幽默方式(假正经)出名,用笑话来掩盖很严肃的信息。
Wit is often a mask. If you could tear it you would find either a genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
风趣常常是一副面具。如果将它撕扯下来,你会发现一个恼羞成怒的天才,或是耍着戏法的小聪明。
This was an old bachelor, Shinshin, a cousin of the countess's, famed in Moscow drawing-rooms for his biting wit.
这位客人是老光棍,伯爵夫人的堂兄,莫斯科的沙龙中常常议论他,都说他是个造谣中伤的人。
up " Drouet from the stand points of wit and fascination. He began to look to see where he was weak. "
他开始用情敌的目光,从机智和魅力的角度来打量他,要找出他的弱点所在。
Havel, a small, soft-spoken man with dancing eyes and a biting wit, was a hero to the forces of freedom everywhere.
哈韦尔个子不高,说话温和,眼睛一眨一眨的,是一个说话尖锐的智者,也是遍布其全国的自由力量心中的英雄人物。
Perhaps one of the most unfathomable things is why Mr Kan did not have the wit to turn that to his advantage.
也许,最深不可测的事情是为什么菅直人没有能力将群众的愤怒转变成自己的优势。
"If there had been no Bagration, somebody would have to invent him, " said the wit, Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire .
“如果没有巴格拉季蓊,那就应当把他虚构出来。”诙谐的申申滑稽地模仿伏尔泰的话说。
There must be a way, if I only hat wit enough to find it out.
只要我开动脑筋,一定能找到办法。
"I'm at my wit's end, " I'd say. Still I was sure that this child needed to feel some warmth from me.
我得说“我已经束手无策了”,但我依然确信这个孩子需要从我这里感受到一些温暖。
She had been at her wit' s end trying to think up an idea for her composition assignment.
她为了作文的作业苦思找灵感,已到了江郎才尽的地步。
With all three children at home all day, the mother was at her wit's end trying to keep the house clean.
三个孩子都整天呆在家里,母亲实在无法使屋子保持清洁。
Oscar Wilde was widely known for his wit and intelligence in plays, but he was no stranger to it in real-life.
奥斯卡•王尔德因为在戏剧创作方面的机智和才华广为人知,不过在现实生活中,王尔德也同样是一个机智过人的人。
Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry.
德莱顿承认他自己和他的同辈在机智上不如邓恩,但在诗歌上他们坚持超越了他。
He turned out to be a natural -- a gifted speaker with charisma, humor, and a quick wit.
结果证明他天生就是出色的演说家:富于个人魅力、幽默和机智。
Wearing business suit and shoes, walking up and down in the platform, bearded Patrick spoke eloquently, eyes shining with wit.
留着络腮胡子的帕特里克西装革履,在台上走来走去,口若悬河,两眼闪着智慧之光。
It's an exploration and a conversation between the viewer and one of the industry's luminaries, delivered with wit, depth, and provocation.
它是一种探索,他是与观众的一次促膝交谈,是行业的灯塔,富含智慧、深度和启发。
I've been trying to take care of this problem for weeks now, and I'm really at my wit's end.
我已经试图处理这个问题好几周了,可现在我真的已经没有办法了。
He had the right personal qualities, too: a fine mind, a tough hide, a dry wit, and he was a better hearts player than Erskine Bowles.
在性格方面他也很合适:精明的头脑、坚强的内心、冷幽默,在攻心策略上比厄斯金还要更胜一筹。
People used to think of creativity and innovation as a flash of wit or a bit of good thinking.
过去,人们常认为好的创意和革新来自一个人的智慧和好的见解。
If I have wit enough to find the way out of this wood, I have enough to serve my turn.
要是俺真聪明得能够走出这座树林子,那俺就已经很知足了。
The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed.
说真的,所有那些人似乎都深深感到那个陌生人的服饰举止既非才智的表现,又无半点风雅可言。
Adulation of the young Sir Willoughby's beauty and wit, and aristocratic bearing and mien was common.
一切对威洛比爵士的奉承:英俊、聪慧及有贵族仪表、风度翩翩等等,都显得平淡无奇。
He was charmed by her beauty and wit.
他被她的才貌迷住了。
His only weapon was his wit.
他唯一的武器就是自己的聪明才智。
Beware her waspish wit.
提防她的刻毒的妙语。
They wonder at the boy's wit.
他们对男孩的机智感到惊讶。
Mr. A seems to be at his wit's end over his wife's affair with another man.
先生对他太太与另一男人有染似乎不知所措。
It was his brother's gifts and wit that made him achieving high ranking in Mo school. There was no direct tie to Huan.
是天赋与其弟那样的聪明才智,才造就了他在墨家的成就,与缓是没有什么直接关系的。
to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
至于玛拿西的长子基列之父(父或作主)玛吉,因为是勇士就得了基列和巴珊。
The book's tone is by no means as bleak as you might suppose (or maybe as it should be): Mr Clark writes with disarming wit.
这本书基调决不像你可能想像的那么灰暗(或像它本应的那么灰暗):克拉克的写作风格机智地令人失去警觉。
In spite of his grief, Twain continued to amuse the American public with a seemingly inexhaustible store of wit and humor.
尽管他非常悲痛,马克·吐温仍以他那似乎永不枯竭的机智和幽默,使美国公众笑逐颜开。
She did not in fact betray very much at all other than a serene confidence and a puckish wit.
她表现的平静而自信,不时还以一些机智而俏皮的话语。
Buzzing with ideas, overflowing with wit, razor-sharp and ready to blow your mind: Channel 4 has always been fresh and intelligent.
新的观点四处流传,智慧满溢,尖锐锋利并准备让你无法思考:第四频道总是新鲜并富有才智。
He has the quick wit and comic timing to match Hermione in her verbal aggressiveness , to tease her, to play Benedict to her Beatrice.
他有急智,也会把握时机,足以和赫敏抗衡,还敢去逗惹她,他们俩是天生一对欢喜冤家。
Fox - One who will use all that he may posses of sagacity, wit or wisdom in his own defense.
狐狸-能够运用自己全部的精明、机敏和智慧来自卫的人。
The only thing separate that joy and the savage death occurring a few yards outside the hotel wall was one man's courage and wit.
唯一不同的是喜悦和野蛮的死亡发生在酒店外墙壁几码是一个人的勇气和智慧。
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
忧愁把我弄得如此糊涂,以致我很难有自知之明了。
McCarthy was a fascinating man, tall, gray-haired, and handsome, an Irish Catholic intellectual with a fine mind and a biting wit.
麦卡锡是个有魅力的人,高高的个子,灰头发,英俊,是一位爱尔兰裔天主教知识分子,思路清晰,发言机智尖锐。
Yang Dahai does not stimulate the wife, take to the mouth of the " long hair and short wit, a frog in a well " like the swallow.
杨大海为不刺激老婆,把到嘴边的“头发长见识短、井底之蛙”之类的咽了回去。
This might be because wit may give off the impression of not being serious or willing to commit to a long-term relationship.
这也许是因为风趣的外表会给人对待感情不认真或不愿意对长期感情关系负责的印象。
Becky had a dozen admirers in his place to be sure; and could cut her rival to pieces with her wit .
蓓基身边有十来个拜倒在她裙下的人来顶替他的位置,而且她谈吐俏皮,一开口就能把对手讽刺得体无完肤。
If Congress had the wit to alter the rate counter-cyclically, so much the better, but let us not make wild assumptions.
如果国会还懂得逆周期调整税率,那就更好了,但我们还是不要太异想天开了。
Animal Farm was one of Orwell's finest works, full of wit and fantasy and admirably written.
动物农庄是奥威尔最好的作品,充满了智慧和反讽。
Eg. I tried to think up some way to get that money, but I were finally at my wit's end.
我试图想出一个法子来弄到这笔钱,谁知还是一筹莫展。
I have never lost the sense that this was learning: wit, range, and above all the ability (as Forster put it in another context) to connect.
我从没有忘记这是学习的机会,学习智慧,深度,还有最重要的联想能力(正如福斯特在另一篇文章中所提到的)。
It is rather more of a personal observation of the character traits prevailing in the political arena seasoned with a little comedy and wit.
在很大程度上,它是一种个人对政治舞台上流行的品格特征的观察,一种添加了点喜剧色彩和智慧的观察。