She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.

她鼓励我仔细地留意乡村人所说的天生的智慧。

How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the education, to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests!

受到初步的基础教育之后，对于愿意独立思考的人来说，在图书馆里信手取下一本书来，根据个人的天赋随意涉猎，这该有多大的好处啊！

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。

She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called "Mother Wit", because in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

她鼓励我要仔细倾听乡下人称为“天生智慧”的话语，她说那些朴实的话语表达了世代相传的集体智慧。

I cannot hope to have reproduced adequately all the vigour and force of his style, the subtlety of his distinctions, or the shrewdness of his mother-wit.

我不指望可以充分再现其富有生机与活力的风格，他的微妙细腻，以及天才般的机智。