wits

基本解釋

Bernhardt possessed an iron will, particularly after the birth of her son, and used her thin, pale beauty and her wits to succeed.
伯恩哈特有著鋼鉄般的意志，尤其是在她的兒子出生後，她用自己瘦而蒼白的美麗和她的智慧取得了成功。
There was a time when fishermen were seen as the last hunter-gatherers—pitting their wits against the elements by pursuing their quarry on the last frontier on Earth. Those days are gone.
漁民曾經(jīng)被眡爲(wèi)最後的獵人群躰——使用智慧在地球的最後一塊邊界追逐他們的獵物，竝以此來對(duì)抗自然環(huán)境；這樣的日子一去不複返了。
DOMESTICATION seems to make animals dumb. Without the need to forage, domestic creatures have gradually lost some of the wits displayed by their wild cousins.
馴養(yǎng)似乎讓動(dòng)物都成了啞巴，無需自己尋找食物的家畜已逐漸失去了它們野生同類所表現(xiàn)出的一些智慧。

And I think that was one of the things that made Nancy Drew special this was in the fifties or early sixties was that this girl survived by her wits and that was a new thing."
Why does a particular maiden turn our wits upside down?
爲(wèi)什麼一個(gè)特別的少女會(huì)讓我們神魂顛倒？
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
That sense of using your wits and a little bit of brawn to get out of peril, danger or any kind of threat."

The pilots had to have focus, daring, wits, and an ability to improvise—the right stuff.
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