英:[ˌaʊtˈwɪt]
美:[ˌaʊtˈwɪt]
英:[ˌaʊtˈwɪt]
美:[ˌaʊtˈwɪt]
out·wit
aUt wIt
第三人称单数:outwits
现在分词:outwitting
过去式:outwitted
过去分词:outwitted
transitive verb
to gain the advantage over by using one's wits, cleverness, or cunning.Their forces were outnumbered, so there was no choice but to outwit the enemy.He could never outwit his mother, who could always guess what he'd been up to.
"通过卓越的智慧战胜,通过卓越的机智击败或挫败",1650年代,来自 out- + wit(n.)。相关词汇: Outwitted; outwitting。中古英语有一个名词 outwit,意为“外部感知能力,身体感官; 通过观察或经验获得的知识”(14世纪晚期; 与 inwit 相比)。
以智取胜
The first known use of outwit was circa 1630
oval1 of 2noun
an oval figure or object
oval2 of 2adjective
having the shape or outline of an egg
oval1 of 2noun
an oval figure or object
oval2 of 2adjective
having the shape or outline of an egg
ova
ouzelnoun
dipper sense 2
outwornadjective
worn-out sense 1, out-of-date
an outworn system
outwork1 of 2verb
to outdo in working
outwork2 of 2noun
a small protected position constructed outside a main defense (as a castle)
outwitverb
to get the better of by cleverness
outwitverb
to get the better of by cleverness
1 It is by seeing the market clearly in its fakeries that he outwitted it to get so rich.
2 He’d thought himself capable of outwitting Toni Morrison, an African American woman who’d won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a debate about Blackness and its profound creative relevance.
3 Among those competitions, which challenge contestants to outwit and out-charm one another in hopes of winning a grand prize, international franchise The Traitors (whose stateside version streams on Peacock) has become reality TV’s biggest success story of the past few years, in the U.S. and abroad.
4 In “Doctor De Soto,” a mouse dentist must outwit one of his patients, a nattily dressed fox who intends to eat him.
5 On the wedding day, Magistrate Tiger bragged to his son about how he had arranged the marriage and outwitted the Old Man of the Moon.
6 Encourage the good to outwit the bad and, with luck, you keep Nemesis at bay.
鼓励好人智取坏人,幸运的话,惩罚不会到来。
7 Its intended audience, children 3 to 8, will delight in characters like an apprehensive bowling pin, a recalcitrant chair — just try to sit on it — and three trees that are determined to outwit a woodcutter.
8 Along with discounts for arriving by train or by shared car, they encourage ski-touring, cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing – activities that "outwit" the lift system, as they put it.
9 In opposition, Forna offers the examples of certain resilient survivors of war zones and of Jean’s foxes, who outwit the humans intent on annihilating them.
10 The risk is that, in trying to be too clever, investors merely outwit themselves.
风险在于,聪明反被聪明误,到头来投资者不过只是算计了自己。
11 Margaret Thatcher and the real Barbara Castle behaved pretty much like the men they were outwitting.
12 "The thing we have yet to outwit is a hyena, because they constantly nick our kit," she says.
13 Not even she herself knew that her fertility had outwitted the mustard vapors, just as Fernanda did not know until almost a year later, when they brought the child.
14 Two prisoners outwitted their guards and got away.
有两个囚犯设计欺骗了警卫而逃走了。
15 Willis is at his charismatic best in this `80s action classic: swaggering, smart-alecky and resourceful, but, at his core, just a regular guy trying to outwit the Euro baddies.
16 He outworked and outwitted his rivals, making plenty of enemies who wanted him dead.
17 When my father walks behind me, as if he thinks he can outwit me, I feel sad.
18 Therefore, outwit more inclined to short - term speculation.
因此, 对川大智胜的炒作更具 短线 倾向.
19 Thus the initial question of "Made For Love" is fairly simple: How do you outwit an adversary to whom you've exposed everything, for whom you've quantified every feeling, and who is actually inside your head?
20 They plot to outwit Bartolo by billeting the Count, disguised as a drunken soldier, in the house.
3 超过
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4 机智上胜过
5 哄骗
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