No thanks to your burglar. He had the nous to play for time.

你的飞贼一点都帮不上忙。他懂得用脑子拖延时间。

He called this force mind or intelligence (nous).

他称这个力量为“心灵”或“睿智”。

Having boasted of its management nous, it now seems that poor management is what did it for a unified GE.

通用电气曾吹嘘自己的管理智慧，但现在看来，正是糟糕的管理成就了统一的通用电气。

With nous autres it is different.

有了 nous autres， 情况就不同了。

But why the O? This has to do with French. Scribes Notice that the OU sound in French is written OU, you think of vous and nous and doux.

但为加 O？这与法语有关。注意到了法语中的 OU 音是的 OU。想想 vous 和 nous 和 doux。

The word that we typically render as ''repent'' is metanoiete in the Greek, a term which is based upon two words ''meta, '' ''beyond, '' and ''nous, '' ''mind.''

我们通常表述成“悔改”的这个词，在希腊文中是metanoiete，它由两个词构成“meta”，“超越”和“nous”，“精神”。

Last year it recruited Tony Hoggart, a former executive from Tesco, a British supermarket chain, to bring grocery nous to a business hitherto obsessed with overhead cameras, QR codes and data collection.

去年，该公司聘请了英国连锁超市特易购（Tesco）前高管托尼·霍加特（Tony Hoggart），为这家迄今为止痴迷于高架摄像头、二维码和数据收集的企业带来杂货知识。

" By the way, " he said, turning to Sipiagin, " et ce gaillard-la" (he moved his chin in Paklin's direction). " Qu'enferons nous? He does not appear very dangerous" .

” 他说，转向西皮亚金， “等等 gaillard-la” （他把下巴移向帕克林的方向）。 “顺便说一句，“Qu'enferons nous？他看起来不是很危险” 。

But, as luck would have it, there is a tool lying around that has both the money and the nous to do it, and which is currently underemployed and in need of a new mission.

但幸运的是，我们恰好就有这一个机构，该机构既有钱又有才，只不过现在被大材小用，正等着我们赋予它新使命呢。

Since the law in question considerably magnifies penalties when the misconduct is " wilful" , the omission was potentially disastrous—and could only have been caught by someone with the right combination of legal and linguistic nous.

由于相关法律在不当行为是“故意”时会大大加重处罚，因此这种疏忽可能是灾难性的——而且只能被具有法律和语言常识的正确组合的人抓住。