看绝望的主妇学英语俚语:Play it by ear

Play it by ear: To improvise; to act as the situation requires, without advance planning(随机应变,见机行事). This term for playing instrumental music without reading the notes from a score, but simply going by the sound, dates from the seventeenth century. It was not transferred to other kinds of improvisation until the mid-twentieth century.

 

中文释义:俚语“play it by ear”源于音乐,指不用看乐谱凭耳朵和记忆就能弹奏出乐曲。现在这个短语的意思可以引申为“根据事情的发展情况来决定下一步怎么做”,也就是“见机行事、边走边看”的意思。例句: Facing the tricky enemy, he had to play it by ear.(面队狡猾的敌人,他只有随机应变了)。引申其他和“ear”相关的俚语:chew one’s ear off(美国俚语,表示“教训、训斥”);give one’s ears(不惜任何代价(得到或做某事));wet behind the ear(“缺乏经验”、“乳臭未干”)。

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