| 单词 | wit |
| 释义 | wit wit1 /wit/, n. 1. the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. 2. speech or writing showing such perception and expression. 3. a person having or noted for such perception and expression. 4. understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness. 5. Usually, wits. a. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. b. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits. 6. at one's wit's end. See end1 (def. 23). 7. keep or have one's wits about one, to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis. 8. live by one's wits, to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits. [bef. 900; ME, OE: mind, thought; c. G Witz, ON vit; akin to WIT2] Syn. 1. drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee. See humor. 4. wisdom, sense, mind. wit2 /wit/, v.t., v.i., pres. sing. 1st pers. wot, 2nd wost, 3rd wot, pres. pl. wit or wite; past and past part. wist; pres. part. witting. 1. Archaic. to know. 2. to wit, that is to say; namely: It was the time of the vernal equinox, to wit, the beginning of spring. [bef. 900; ME witen, OE witan; c. D weten, G wissen, ON vita, Goth witan to know; akin to L videre, Gk ideîn to see, Skt vidati (he) knows. See WOT] |
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