wit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 智力, 才智，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh,' exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, 'there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can say it before my daughter: her hair is long, because her wit is..." "Just what they thought of the negroes before their emancipation!"
-- And all this was so wittingly done that Sergey Ivanovitch would not have disowned such wit himself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was flustered by Angus's sleek assurance, by his homage to her eyes and wit and reticence.
-- All of his own wit and some of Ada's Bert repeated at the supper table.
-- said Mr. S. Sanborn Hibble of Detroit to the charming Mrs. Dawson of Memphis, and she answered, with the wit which made her so popular wherever she went, "Yes, don't he.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet it would seem to want very little wit to perceive it 芒聙娄' 'Excuse me, I've very little wit myself,' Razumihin cut in sharply, 'and so let us drop it.
-- Playful wit and abstract arguments fascinate you and that's for all the world like the old Austrian Hof-kriegsrath as far as I can judge of military matters, that is: on paper they'd beaten Napoleon and taken him prisoner, and there in their study they worked it all out in the cleverest fashion, but look you, General Mack surrendered with all his army, he-he-he!I see, I see, Rodion Romanovitch, you are laughing at a civil-ian like me, taking examples out of military history!But I can't help it, it's my weakness.
-- I fancy I really am: I tell you these things for nothing and don't even expect a reward for it, he-he!Well, to proceed, wit in my opinion is a splendid thing, it is, so to say, an adorn-ment of nature and a consolation of life, and what tricks it can play!So that it sometimes is hard for a poor examining lawyer to know where he is, especially when he's liable to be carried away by his own fancy, too, for you know he is a man after all!But the poor fellow is saved by the criminal's temperament, worse luck for him!But young people carried away by their own wit don't think of that 'when they over-step all obstacles,' as you wittily and cleverly expressed it yesterday.
-- That's what betrays him!Another time he will be carried away by his playful wit into making fun of the man who suspects him, he will turn pale as it were on purpose to mislead, but his paleness will be too natural too much like the real thing, again he has given us an idea!Though his questioner may be deceived at first, he will think differently next day if he is not a fool, and, of course, it is like that at every step!He puts himself forward where he is not want-ed, speaks continually when he ought to keep silent, brings in all sorts of allegorical allusions, he-he!Comes and asks why didn't you take me long ago?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thy ready wit the word will soon supply, May its approval beam in that soft eye!
-- Thy ready wit the word will soon supply.
-- Harriet, she found, had never in her life been within side the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.
-- What a strange thing love is!he can see ready wit in Harriet, but will not dine alone for her.'
-- How could you be so insolent in your wit to a woman of her character, age, and situation? Emma, I had not thought it possible.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, Goriot had his uses, every one vented his spleen or sharpened his wit on him; he was pelted with jokes and belabored with hard words.
-- He had never had either wife or daughter; excesses had reduced him to this sluggish condition; he was a sort of human mollusk who should be classed among the capulidoe, so one of the dinner contingent, an _employe_ at the Museum, who had a pretty wit of his own.
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
-- Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
-- If the women credit you with wit and talent, the men will follow suit so long as you do not undeceive them yourself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The delicacy with which Joe dismissed this theme, and the sweet tact and kindness with which Biddy--who with her woman's wit had found me out so soon--had prepared him for it, made a deep impression on my mind.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.
-- But this princess, who has an infinite deal of wit and humour, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire, and commanded me to give his majesty an account of myself, which I did in a very few words: and Glumdalclitch who at-tended at the cabinet door, and could not endure I should be out of her sight, being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her father's house.
-- aving a desire to see those ancients who were most re-Hnowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.
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