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a. 聪明的,贤明的

  1. By and by some wiser man would appear.
    再过些时候,自会有更聪明的人出现。
  2. I came home sadder but wiser.
    回到家后,我比以前伤感,但也更懂事了。



Wise \Wise\, a. [Compar. {Wiser}; superl. {Wisest}.] [OE. wis,
AS. w[=i]s; akin to OS. & OFries. w[=i]s, D. wijs, G. weise,
OHG. w[=i]s, w[=i]si, Icel. v[=i]ss, Sw. vis, Dan. viis,
Goth. weis; akin to wit, v. i. See {Wit}, v., and cf.
{Righteous}, {Wisdom}.]
1. Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive
information; erudite; learned.

They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have
no knowledge. --Jer. iv. 22.

2. Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning
and judging soundly concerning what is true or false,
proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best
means for accomplishing them; sagacious.

When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.
--Shak.

From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. --2
Tim. iii. 15.

3. Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous;
specifically, skilled in divination.

Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now
with me; but she's gone.
Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of
Brentford? --Shak.

4. Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
[R.] ``Thou art . . . no novice, but a governor wily and
wise.'' --Chaucer.

Nor, on the other side,
Will I be penuriously wise
As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. --Beau.
& Fl.

Lords do not care for me:
I am too wise to die yet. --Ford.

5. Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting
wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious;
discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise
conduct or management; a wise determination. ``Eminent in
wise deport.'' --Milton.

{To make it wise}, to make it a matter of deliberation.
[Obs.] `` We thought it was not worth to make it wise.''
--Chaucer.

{Wise in years}, old enough to be wise; wise from age and
experience; hence, aged; old. [Obs.]

A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one;
He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth.
--Ford.

You are too wise in years, too full of counsel,
For my green experience. --Ford.

  1. He is now an adult in shock, wiser and sadder but no less hilarious.
  2. He rises quickly to the top, following the worn Hollywood principle that innocents must always prove themselves wiser than world-weary cynics.
  3. After all, this was a place where, according to one local critic, "A dancer had practically to fall on her backside for the audience to notice anything was wrong or for the administration to care." Older and wiser types might have hesitated.
  4. Miss Suzman, who graduated from Johannesburg to the RSC, said other, wiser things, and I hope her feelings for the South African theatre will have survived Tuesday's vote.
  5. East European governments are wiser now about the gap between liberal trade rhetoric and hardball practice.
  6. The Soviets could conclude that recent embarrassing disclosures have so damaged him that they would be wiser to bide their time and do serious negotiating with his successor.
  7. It may yet be restored if wiser heads prevail, whether within South Africa or from outside.
  8. Some say a wiser strategy for Met would have been to allow its capital ratio to increase even more, especially since rating concerns are more closely watching the industry.
  9. 'My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect.
  10. Boris Karlov will return to the Soviet Union a little wiser about the world's woes, a little more certain that there are no simple answers to the issues that separate the superpowers.
  11. The administration also may find it politically wiser to dispose of the issue before the June 4 first anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.
  12. Only a much larger aid programme, with a wiser stabilisation strategy, could do the job. IMF incantations of budget cutting and tight monetary policy are insufficient.
  13. No punishment can render justice in his case." The conservative Neue Zurcher Zeitung agreed, saying: "One could argue that it would be wiser to sentence a person, whose identity is only 99 percent sure, to life imprisonment instead of to death.
  14. As Rand Corp. found in studies certain to figure prominently in the debate, when people pay a fee for health services (emergency rooms were Rand's focus), use becomes wiser and more sparing.
  15. "It has made us politically stronger, wiser and better organized than we have ever been," said Jean Harris, an aide to Board of Supervisors President Harry Britt and chairwoman of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the California Democratic Party.
  16. If Wall Street's younger generation seems more exhilarated than anguished by the stock market's wild ride, how are older and possibly wiser folks reacting?
  17. Older and wiser, Mrs. Bandaranaike is ready for office again, and is said to have a good chance of winning elections scheduled for 1989.
  18. But this conference, like so many others, ended with a call for caution and a consensus that there is a pressing need for a multinational committee of even wiser men to recommend a Western response to Soviet initiatives.
  19. A wiser man reckoned, 'The colonialists left too soon; we were not ready to understand what a nation is.'
  20. "I am wiser, more experienced man," he said in a recent interview.
  21. Mr. Gates said that while he was shocked, he wasn't drawing conclusions and would look into the "background," of the incident. Presumably, the chief has now received wiser council.
  22. The wiser comedians come up with some packaging these days.
  23. But without any takeover potential, or an imminent float, it is surely wiser to concentrate on an earnings stream.
  24. It would be wiser to split the priorities and the money on both missions.
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