1. （说话的）风趣，机智，巧妙
    Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way.

    e.g. Boulding was known for his biting wit...
           博尔丁爱说尖酸的俏皮话是出了名的。
    e.g. They love her practical attitude to life, her zest and wit.
           他们喜欢她务实的人生态度、她的热情和幽默。

2. 风趣的人;机智的人
    If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way.

wit的反义词

    e.g. Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.
           福尔摩斯爱交际,非常风趣，兴趣广泛。

3. 头脑；智慧
    If you say that someone has the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation.

    e.g. The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it.
           资料就摆在那儿，等着有头脑的人去利用。

4. 机智
    You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your wits .

    e.g. She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today.
           她凭借个人才智升到了今天的职位。

5. 把…吓得魂不附体
    You can use wits in expressions such as frighten someone out of their wits and scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much.

    e.g. You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident.
           你把我们吓坏了，我们听说你出事了。
    e.g. ...a huge bass drum which frightened the wits out of the organist each time it was banged.
           每次敲起来都让风琴师惊慌失措的巨型低音鼓

6. 时刻保持警惕;随机应变
    If you have your wits about you or keep your wits about you, you are alert and ready to act in a difficult situation.

    e.g. Travellers need to keep their wits about them.
           旅行者需要随机应变。

7. 智穷才尽;黔驴技穷;无计可施
    If you say that you are at your wits' end, you are emphasizing that you are so worried and exhausted by problems or difficulties that you do not know what to do next.

    e.g. We row a lot and we never have time on our own. I'm at my wit's end.
           我们经常争吵，从无在一起的时间，我真是没有办法了。

8. 与…斗智;与…比学问
    If you pit your wits against someone, you compete against them in a test of knowledge or intelligence.

wit的近义词

    e.g. He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning.
           他不得不与一个冷静、聪明而又狡猾的对手斗智。

9. （用于更准确地描述）亦即，也就是
    To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely.

    e.g. He'd like 'happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit 'Major affective disorder, pleasant type'.
           他想给“幸福”一个更为科学的新称谓，准确地说即“愉悦型重度情感障碍”。

10. battle of wits -> see battle