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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not know of a man among the plains-drivers who had wit enough to rope even a dead elephant.'
-- For the ways of elephants are beyond the wit of any man, black or white, to fathom.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He who wishes to prosper in Indian warfare,' returned the scout, 'must not be too proud to learn from the wit of a native.
-- exclaimed the scout, advancing to the spot; 'the lad is quick of sight and keen of wit for his years.'
-- You will have occasion for your best manhood, and for a sharper wit than what is to be gathered in books, afore you outdo the cun-ning or get the better of the courage of a Mingo.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither wit nor whisky could detain him then.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In place of enlivening his patron with a constant fire of wit or the cheerful rattle of his quarter-staff on the heads of his relations and acquaintance, here was that beaming Punch utterly devoid of spine, all slack and drooping in a dark box, with his legs doubled up round his neck, and not one of his social qualities remaining.
-- His coat, his waistcoat, his shoes and stockings, his trousers, his hat, his wit and humour, his pathos and his umbrella, all come before me like visions of my youth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heathcliff was dangerously sick; and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his pillow: I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn't wit to guess that I was compelled to do it.
-- Edgar Linton, after an inquisitive stare, collected sufficient wit to recognise her.
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