2N-COUNT 风趣的人;机智的人 If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. 风趣的人;机智的人
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。
3N-SING 头脑;智慧 If you say that someone has the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation. 头脑;智慧
The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it.
4N-PLURAL [usually poss NOUN]机智 You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your wits . 机智
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。
5N-PLURAL 把…吓得魂不附体 You can use wits in expressions such as frighten someone out of their wits and scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much. 把…吓得魂不附体 [emphasis]
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。
...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
6PHRASE 时刻保持警惕;随机应变 If you have your wits about you or keep your wits about you, you are alert and ready to act in a difficult situation. 时刻保持警惕;随机应变
Travellers need to keep their wits about them.
旅行者需要随机应变。
7PHRASE 智穷才尽;黔驴技穷;无计可施 If you say that you are at your wits' end, you are emphasizing that you are so worried and exhausted by problems or difficulties that you do not know what to do next. 智穷才尽;黔驴技穷;无计可施 [emphasis]
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。
8PHRASE 与…斗智;与…比学问 If you pit your wits against someone, you compete against them in a test of knowledge or intelligence. 与…斗智;与…比学问
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。
9PHRASE (用于更准确地描述)亦即,也就是To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely. (用于更准确地描述)亦即,也就是 [literary]
He'd like 'happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit 'Major affective disorder, pleasant type'.