And — I don't know, you just use your mother wit, you know. Common sense, really.
我不知道,你只是运用你的天赋,你知道的。常识,真的。
Advanced English book1
She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations
她还鼓励我认真倾听被乡下人称为常识的一些俗语。她说这些朴实谚语是一代代人集体智慧的结晶。
圣女贞德
In the same way Joan must be judged a sane woman in spite of her voices because they never gave her any advice that might not have come to her from her mother wit exactly as gravitation came to Newton.