【句子】Why don't we play it by ear? 【Desperate Housewives S02E03】

【发音】/waɪ/ /dəʊnt/ /wiː/ /pleɪ/ /ɪt/ /baɪ/ /ɪə(r)/

【发音技巧】don't we类似不完全爆破的处理；play it连读；it by失去爆破；

【翻译】咱们为什么不顺其自然、随机应变呢？

【适用场合】

今天学一下这个短语：

play it by ear

当然宾语it换成别的词也可以。

这个短语的字面意思可以表达：“不看乐谱就可以直接凭记忆弹奏一首曲子”，

to play music by hearing and remembering it, not by reading it



eg: She can play the piano by ear.

她可以不看乐谱，光靠耳朵听和记忆来弹奏钢琴。



eg: Wow, George is such a talented piano player! The way he can play pieces by ear after hearing them just once is so impressive!

哇，乔治弹钢琴真的有天赋！他听了一次的曲子就能靠记忆不看谱子弹出来，真的太牛了吧！



eg: Just because he can play by ear doesn't mean he's a great songwriter.

他能不看乐谱，凭借听力和记忆来演奏，并不能意味着他就是一个很好的作曲家。



eg: If I could play by ear, I wouldn't have to take lessons—or practice!

要是我能只靠耳朵和记忆演奏，我就不用去上课了，也不用练习了！



通过最后这俩例句，你们会发现，play后面不跟宾语，也是没有问题的。



但在口语中，它可以引申一下表示：
to deal with something without previous planning or instructions

或者

to decide how to deal with a situation as it develops rather than by having a plan to follow

“随机应变；见机行事；根据情况来临时决定怎么处理，而不是提前做好计划和预案”；



eg: I'm not sure how many people are expected. We'll just have to play it by ear.

我不确定会有多少个人--我们到时候见机行事吧。



eg: I don't know what they'll want when they arrive-we'll have to play it by ear.

我也不知道他们来了会想要什么，到时候咱们见机行事吧。



eg: A: "Are we meeting at noon on Saturday?"

B: "Around then. I have to run some errands in the morning, so let's play things by ear."

A：我们是周***午见吗？

B：差不多是那个时候，我那天早晨会有点事儿，所以到时候再联系。



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He never prepared his presentations. He always played things by ear.