Welcome to English in a Minute.
<If you listen to American English>, you probably have heard this phrase: {"Play it by ear."}
What does it mean? Let's find out <by listening to an American English conversation>.
A: Hey, what do you want to do <this weekend>?
B: I don't know. We could see a movie | or have dinner. Why don't we play it by ear?
A: Sure.
"Play it by ear" means {you aren't going to make a firm plan, | but will decide what to do <as you go along>}.
This idiom has a musical meaning too. <When you don't have the written music for a song, || but you play the notes {that you think you've heard}, you "play it by ear."
So <when you are in a situation [where you make a plan as you go]>, you're "playing it by ear".
And that's English in a Minute.
"Play it by ear"意思是｛你還沒有確定做某事，｜但會隨著情況變化而作出決定。}
這個習(xí)語也是個音樂行話。<當(dāng)你還沒有為歌詞譜好曲，|| 但你試彈你想到得音符>，你就是"Play it by ear"。
因此<當(dāng)你處于一個將根據(jù)情況而定得處境>，你就是"Play it by ear"（隨機(jī)應(yīng)變,見機(jī)行事）。
phrase [freiz] n.習(xí)語;短語
conversation [?k?nv??sei??n] n.談話；會話；
firm [f??m] adj.堅(jiān)定得；確定得;
go along 沿著，順著，接下來
idiom [?idi?m] n.習(xí)語；成語;習(xí)慣用法
musical [?mju?zikl] adj.音樂得；與音樂有關(guān)得;
note [n?ut] n.筆記;便條；音符
situation [?sit?u?ei??n] n.位置；環(huán)境;情況
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