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wits

机智
智力
智慧

I entered the quiz just for fun and found myself pitting my wits against a university professor.
我出于好玩才去参加这次智力竞赛，结果发现我要与一位大学教授斗智。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
简洁是机智的精髓。

wits

[ noun ]
the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
<noun.cognition>
he used his wits to get aheadI was scared out of my wits
he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind

"Education is the opportunity, through studying a variety of subjects, to gain information and the dexterity to use your wits and your expression.
All around the world, the struggle for power is becoming a battle of wits.
When he first came to power in 1985 and introduced an anti-alcohol campaign, wits turned his title of "General Secretary" into "Mineral Secretary" _ a reference to the mineral water resorted to by drinkers deprived of wine and vodka.
Some law-enforcement officials are relying more on wits than on new technology.
"You can pit your wits against nature." It would seem at first glance that Lille Berger has much to be thankful for this Christmas.
There were banners, partisan crowds, a huge press contingent and a festive yet tense atmosphere Sunday as George Bush and Michael Dukakis matched wits for 90 minutes in the chapel with millions of Americans looking on through television.
Taxes raise not just revenues but outrage and threats too, as well as inspiring wits, wags, philosophers, politicians and liars.
Home television viewers will be able to match wits with NFL quarterbacks and win prizes by calling plays in an interactive football game popular in sports bars, taverns and hotels.
He was arrested in Tennessee, sacked in California and 25 red-suited Kris Kringles scared the wits out of children with their chorus of ho-ho-hos.
Benton, who stood only 5-foot-2, was quick with his fists as a boy in rough-and-tumble Neosho, Mo., and quick with his wits later in life.
While the studio audience was stoked to a fever pitch with rah-rah school spirit, the at-home audience enjoyed "matching wits with the champions."
To an extent not known in Chinese business since the 1949 revolution, they must live on their wits.
Then in January 1991 management judged the end of the recession in sight and recruited more than 70 workers. In April 1992, when recovery seemed as distant as ever, it made 42 redundant. Kosset has survived on management wits and luck.
The women arrive, and the 'civil war of wits' begins. The characters are surprisingly cruel with each other, a fact that the direction fails to exploit.
The ferry was damaged to the tune of $250,000, and local wits came up with a tune of their own, "Elwha on the Rocks."
My wife and I, for two, are back again this year to have the wits frightened out of us.
But he said handling it or any other bomb, is a test of wits pitting the officer against the bomb builder.
So linked is the new Czech state with the German-speaking core of Europe that some Czech wits suggest that their new state should be called East Germany.
"Your incredible Kung Fu training will help you as you match wits with knife throwers, ferocious bulldogs and the gang's evil leader."
It's not to everyone's taste, and Dublin wits were quick to nickname it "the Floozy in the Jacuzzi." "If you look at a photograph of the Taj Mahal, you know you are looking at India.
A new arts and books editor is arriving fairly shortly, and will no doubt cut a swathe as soon as she gathers her wits.
Knowing the reasoning behind the FAA's safety measures may give passengers an edge in using their wits.

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