to wit 的定义
- That is to say, namely, as in There are three good reasons for not going, to wit, we don't want to, we don't have to, and we can't get a reservation. This expression comes from the now archaic verb to wit, meaning “know or be aware of,” not heard except in this usage. [Late 1500s]
to wit 近义词
等同于 scilicet
等同于 namely
等同于 videlicet
更多to wit例句
- What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
- That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
- It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
- The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
- Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
- We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
- "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
- To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.