| 词组 | to wit |
| 释义 | to wit To wit has occasionally been criticized as an inappropriately legalistic synonym for namely. There is no denying that this adverbial phrase is most at home in legal writing: • Thereafter when the transactions occurred forming the basis of this claim, to-wit, the giving of the treasurer's checks ... —Banking Law Jour., May 1940 Its past occurrences in general writing have not been rare, but our recent evidence (or lack of evidence) suggests that its use may now be diminishing. It is most likely to occur, and seems most appropriate, in writing that has a notably formal tone: • We need not engage in deceit to deal with what is human, to wit, erring —Robert T. Blackburn, AA UP Bulletin, December 1967 |
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