wit: suggests the power to evoke laughter by remarks showing verbal felicity or ingenuity and swift perception especially of the incongruous: appreciate the ~ of Wilde and Shaw.         Wilde王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854.10.16—1900.11.30），19世纪英国（准确来讲是爱尔兰，但是当时由英国统治）最伟大的作家与艺术家之一，以其剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名  Shaw萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856.7.26—1950.11.2），爱尔兰剧作家，世界著名的擅长幽默与讽刺的语言大师


humor: implies an ability to perceive the ludicrous, the comical, and the absurd in human life and to express these usually with keen insight and sympathetic understanding and without bitterness: a person with a finely honed sense of ~.    (hone磨刀石==>磨练培养)         humor强烈褒义，相比wit更生活化，而且不刻薄。


irony: applies to a manner of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of the expressed meaning:  with wry ~, he said, 'Thank God I'm an atheist!'


sarcasm: applies to savagely humorous expression frequently in the form of irony that is intended to cut or wound: a cynic much given to heartless ~.    sarcastic通过说反话讽刺，目的是侮辱表达愤怒或仅仅为了好玩using words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult, to show irritation, or to be funny，如a voice full of sarcasm充满讽刺的语气，如a sarcastic person/remark/replay好讽刺的人/带有讽刺的语言/回复


satire: applies to writing that exposes or ridicules conduct, doctrines, or institutions either by direct criticism OR more often through irony, parody, or caricature: the play is a ~ on contemporary living arrangements.      satire也是通过幽默来讽刺，但目的是批评取笑他人愚蠢软弱缺点（比sarcasm程度轻）a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. 如the movie is a political/social satire政治/社会讽刺影片，形容词如a satiric/satirical novel讽刺小说     parody模仿风格，caricature滑稽夸大某一特征，都在2018-01-10 滑稽模仿caricature-travesty组


repartee: implies the power or art of answering quickly, pointedly, or wittily, or to an interchange of such responses: a partygoer well known for razor-sharp ~.


wit幽默:  能引人发笑，即语言得体巧妙(ingenuity原指善于发现)，又善于发现问题(如不适当的言行incongruous)，humor也是幽默: 指善于发现生活中可笑之事，且表达方式敏锐而不刻薄, irony反讽: 将要表达的意思故意说成与之相反的一种说话方式，sarcasm讽刺: 目的是侮辱伤人(to cut or wound)，通过近乎野蛮的幽默，satire也是讽刺: 通过直接批评或反讽模仿来揭露批评， repartee: 回话快速机智


记忆方法： 1） 首字母WH IS SR重组成HIS SWR(swear发誓郑重承诺的缩写)<==带着幽默
         
           2）练习一下

           3）幽默的意思是语言表达风趣逗人的mean a mode of expression intended to arouse amused interest or evoke laughter.首字母WH IS SR重组成HIS SWR(swear发誓郑重承诺的缩写)<==带着幽默