wits

基本解释

Bernhardt possessed an iron will, particularly after the birth of her son, and used her thin, pale beauty and her wits to succeed.
伯恩哈特有着钢铁般的意志，尤其是在她的儿子出生后，她用自己瘦而苍白的美丽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.
渔民曾经被视为最后的猎人群体——使用智慧在地球的最后一块边界追逐他们的猎物，并以此来对抗自然环境；这样的日子一去不复返了。
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.
驯养似乎让动物都成了哑巴，无需自己寻找食物的家畜已逐渐失去了它们野生同类所表现出的一些智慧。

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?
为什么一个特别的少女会让我们神魂颠倒？
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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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