Havel, a small, soft-spoken man with dancing eyes and a biting wit, was a hero to the forces of freedom everywhere.

哈韦尔个子不高，说话温和，眼睛一眨一眨的，是一个说话尖锐的智者，也是遍布其全国的自由力量心中的英雄人物。

youdao

Hence, if a man wants to use his petty wit, consciousness and mind to imitate the functions of Tao, he will be doomed to fail.

因此，如果一个人想用他那点可怜的聪明才智，用他的意识，用心以去模仿自然的道，他是注定会失败的。

youdao

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

缺乏风趣之人不会使人长久愉悦。

youdao

Conservative Communities Secretary Eric Pickles called the Croydon North MP "a man of great wit and humanity".

BBC: Cross-party tributes for former energy minister Wicks

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he was "very sad" to learn of the death of Mr Wicks, who he described as "a man of great wit and humanity".

BBC: Labour's Malcolm Wicks dies at 65

Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.

WSJ: Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly