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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]

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.).

词态变化

复数 wits;

权威造句

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

近反义词

to wit 即

mother wit 天资

do to wit 使知道,使懂得...

half-wit 愚蠢低能的人...

Attic wit 文雅的机智

at one"s wit"s end 智穷力竭

present wit 睿智

live by one"s wits 靠小聪明过日子...

at one"s wits" end 智穷计尽

dim-wit 傻瓜

have one"s wits about one 警觉

wit. =witness

keep one"s wits about one 警觉

scare someone out of his wit 把某人吓得魂不附体...

woman"s wit 女人凭直觉的洞察力...

have a slow wit 蠢

Wit bought is better than wit taught. 亲身经验最可贵。...

more wit in his little finger than in your whole body 他比你聪明千百倍...

flash of wit 突然出现的机智,灵机...

have a quick wit 有急智

相似短语

to wit 那就是说,即

mother wit n. 天生的智力

flash of wit 突然出现的机智, 灵机一动

attic wit n.文雅的机智,典雅而意义深刻的妙语

done to wit 使知道

readiness of wit 机敏

sauced with wit 风趣横生的

Attic wit n. 文雅的机智

dry wit 冷嘲

present wit n. 睿智

单词分析

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。

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