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单词 witting
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Definition of witting in English:

witting

adjectiveˈwɪtɪŋˈwɪdɪŋ
  • 1Done in full awareness or consciousness; deliberate.

    有意的,故意的,蓄意的

    the witting and unwitting complicity of the institutions

    各个机构间有意或无意的串通。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The top bankers and their top legal firms are all part of a very deliberate and witting money laundering apparatus.
    • As reported on our front page, Bulgaria plans to tighten up controls to prevent the violations, witting and unwitting, which have followed its acceptance by the Schengen family.
    • Both films feature a friend who helps eliminate the protagonist's problems via murder, and, in the process, gains the witting or unwitting complicity of the hero.
    • We want witting, not unwitting, understanding.
    • Whether this is a witting or an unwitting acting choice, or a thematic directorial decision to make us see that Kate is only playing ‘The Shrew,’ it throws the entire play off balance.
    1. 1.1 (of a person) conscious or aware of the full facts of a situation.
      (人)意识到的,知道的
      a witting accomplice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nowadays many would prefer to forget it, lest its memory serve as a reproach against those who were witting or unwitting apologists for appeasement.
      • Could there have been any other witting leaders?
      • Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
      • I have heard the number ‘150,’ but we should think in terms of much larger numbers, including the additional witting and unwitting accomplices aiding and abetting the enemy.
      • The government never explains why it is precisely those who oppose the government's policies from the left who represent witting or unwitting allies of terrorism.
      • As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.

Derivatives

  • wittingly

  • adverb ˈwɪtɪŋliˈwɪdɪŋli
    • everyone, wittingly or otherwise, will become involved
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But I strongly suspect that if anyone has been ‘duped’ here, it's this man - who, wittingly or unwittingly, has become a pawn in the Army's propaganda machine.
      • A sophisticated person need not behave like a madari and, wittingly or unwittingly, distort his public image in today's highly unethical and competitive politics.
      • In this play, Oscar Wilde wittingly expresses his view of the traditional institution of marriage and tests a young couple's fidelity.
      • There may be a present day parallel in the way the traditional media has, wittingly or not, marginalised certain ways of thinking and forced us to seize the means of publication ourselves to give expression to our views.
      • He pulls back the curtain to reveal a magnificent charade in which everyone is wittingly or unwittingly complicit in the world's most extended re-enactment.
      • Any good agency would have sufficient checks in place to ensure they don't place, either wittingly or unwittingly, someone not qualified to do the job.
      • Indian photographers of my generation have wittingly or unwittingly been influenced by a distinctly Western view of India.
      • They know full well that many in Britain's elite are only too willing - wittingly or otherwise - to respond positively to their demands.
      • Which is why I also believe that Tommy Sheridan and his Scottish Socialist Party are either wittingly or unwittingly dividing the independence vote, thereby making independence so much more difficult to achieve.
      • When they represent their countries they become wittingly, if regrettably, icons of patriotism.

Origin

Late Middle English: from wit2 + -ing2.

Rhymes

fitting, sitting, unbefitting, unremitting

Definition of witting in US English:

witting

adjectiveˈwidiNGˈwɪdɪŋ
  • 1Done in full awareness or consciousness; deliberate.

    有意的,故意的,蓄意的

    the witting and unwitting complicity of the institutions

    各个机构间有意或无意的串通。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The top bankers and their top legal firms are all part of a very deliberate and witting money laundering apparatus.
    • Whether this is a witting or an unwitting acting choice, or a thematic directorial decision to make us see that Kate is only playing ‘The Shrew,’ it throws the entire play off balance.
    • As reported on our front page, Bulgaria plans to tighten up controls to prevent the violations, witting and unwitting, which have followed its acceptance by the Schengen family.
    • We want witting, not unwitting, understanding.
    • Both films feature a friend who helps eliminate the protagonist's problems via murder, and, in the process, gains the witting or unwitting complicity of the hero.
    1. 1.1 (of a person) conscious or aware of the full facts of a situation.
      (人)意识到的,知道的
      he tried to implicate her as a witting accomplice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The government never explains why it is precisely those who oppose the government's policies from the left who represent witting or unwitting allies of terrorism.
      • Nowadays many would prefer to forget it, lest its memory serve as a reproach against those who were witting or unwitting apologists for appeasement.
      • Could there have been any other witting leaders?
      • I have heard the number ‘150,’ but we should think in terms of much larger numbers, including the additional witting and unwitting accomplices aiding and abetting the enemy.
      • Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
      • As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.

Origin

Late Middle English: from wit + -ing.

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