WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category

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salt [sɔlt] 词频1 词根: 盐
n. 盐;风趣;机智，讽刺;药用盐，泻盐; vt. 撒盐;用盐渍;加盐以调味;为…增加趣味; adj. 含盐的;有咸味的;盐渍的;
💡 salt(salt)→盐；食盐；提神物；刺激；咸的；食盐的；加盐；用盐腌
"He employs an irreverent humour to salt his observation."
他运用玩世不恭的幽默使他的评论更加有趣.
近义：pepper, season, spice, brighten, enliven, flavor 反义：unsalt, desalinate, desalinize
intellectual [,ɪntə'lɛktʃuəl] 词频3 词根: intel
adj. 智力的;有才智的;需用智力的;智力发达的; n. 知识分子;脑力劳动者;有极高智力的人;凭理智（而非感情）办事的人;
💡 intellect智力+ual...的→ 智力的
"Some Americans see Oxford as an intellectual Disneyland."
一些美国人把牛津视为知识分子的乐园。
近义：highbrow, literatus, scholar, longhair, egghead 反义：ignoramus, philistine, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninstructed
American [ə'merikən] 词频1
n. 美国人;美洲人; 美国英语; adj. 美国的 ;美洲的;地道美国式的;
"a clean-cut all-American boy"
整洁体面的典型美国男孩
近义：us
humorist ['hju:mərist]
n. 幽默作家;富于幽默感的人;谈吐诙谐者;滑稽演员;
"He was also a famous humorist, a spinner of yarns."
他又是著名的幽默家和讲故事的好手.
近义：parodist
cookery [['kukəri]] 词频4
n. 烹调法, 烹调术
近义：cooking, cuisine
spoils
n. 赃物；战利品（spoil的复数）
近义：leavings, spoilage, threshings, wreckage, remains, debris

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"PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast."
"PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment."
"YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)"
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