witty [ 'witi] a.机智的；风趣的
小品 witty skits
A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity.
蠢人装聪明，实在最可怜。
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
我不仅要使自己有才智，而且也要使别人有才智。
Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Francis Bacon, British Philosopher
历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑辞学使人善辩。
英国哲学家培根.F.
风趣 [fēng qù] /humor/wit/humorous/witty/
机智 [jī zhì] /tact/witty/
伶俐 [líng lì] /(adj) clever; witty; intelligent/
{adj: aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic} terse and witty and like a maxim
"much given to apothegmatic instruction"
{adj: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish} very irritable
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
"he became prickly and spiteful"
"witty and waspish about his colleagues"
{adj: overweening, uppity} presumptuously arrogant
"had a witty but overweening manner"
"no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet
"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
{adj: waggish} witty or joking
"Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper
{adj: witty} combining clever conception and facetious expression
"his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"
{adv: wittily} in a witty manner
"he would wittily chime into our conversation"
{n: Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope} suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)
{n: Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward} English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
{n: bel esprit} a witty or clever person with a fine mind
{n: brightness, cleverness, smartness} intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
{n: clerihew} a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
"`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
{n: conceit} a witty or ingenious turn of phrase
"he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
{n: epigram, quip} a witty saying
{n: esprit de l'escalier} a witty remark that occurs to you too late
{n: impromptu} an extemporaneous speech or remark
"a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"
{n: jeu d'esprit} a witty comment or writing
{n: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter} a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
"it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
{n: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark} witty language used to convey insults or scorn
"he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"
"irony is wasted on the stupid"
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
{n: table} a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
"he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"
{n: wag, wit, card} a witty amusing person who makes jokes
{n: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip} witty remark
In the age of the TV sitcom, witty New York repartee and the instant one-liner, Western wisdom in the modern sense can mean something more like the dialogue from an American sitcom.
在电视情景喜剧、纽约式的机智问答和即兴的单句俏皮话大行其道的时代，现代意义上的西方智慧更像是一出美国情景喜剧里对白之类的东西。
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