"keep your wits about one" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 保持冷静
• 保持警觉

Definition

在艰难或危险的情况下，保持冷静、警觉和清醒思考的能力。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

该表达较正式，常用于提醒在危险或新环境中要保持冷静和机警。不适用于普通的小问题，通常用于紧急或具挑战性的情况。

Examples

When you walk home at night, you should keep your wits about you.

晚上走路回家时，你应该**保持冷静**。

You need to keep your wits about you during the test.

考试期间你必须**保持警觉**。

In the city, it's important to keep your wits about you.

在城市里，**保持冷静**很重要。

There were so many confusing signs that I had to keep my wits about me to find the right road.

标志太多太乱了，我必须**保持警觉**才能找到正确的路。

Traveling alone in a new country means you really have to keep your wits about you.

独自一人在新国家旅行时，你真的得**保持冷静**。

Things got chaotic at the market, but she managed to keep her wits about her and didn’t get lost.

市场一片混乱，但她还是**保持了冷静**，没有迷路。