聽(tīng)力每日練習(xí) listen 957 Fly?by?the?Seat?of?One's?Pants

1--Here is an idiom that seems to make no sense. Fly by the Seat of One's Pants
 
2--Say that again? How can someone fly by the seat of her pants? Let's listen:
 
1--How are we ever going to get this project done at work?
 
2--I have no idea. At this point, we are flying by the seat of our pants!
 
1--We don't have a plan worked out yet.
 
2--Flying by the seat of one's pants means that you don't have a set plan going forward.
 
1--This phrase comes from the early days of airplanes.
 
2--Pilots did not have much technology to help them know where they were, or where they were
 
going.
 
1--Pilots had to depend on their judgment and their brains.
 
2--Which is what flying by the seat of our pants means today!
 
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注解：
 
1.project工程
2.phrase短語(yǔ)
3.judgment判斷
 
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譯文：
 
1--這個(gè)習(xí)語(yǔ)看起來(lái)毫無(wú)意義。憑感覺(jué)
2--請(qǐng)?jiān)僬f(shuō)一遍？誰(shuí)能借著褲子的座位飛起來(lái)？讓我們來(lái)聽(tīng)一聽(tīng)：
1--我們什么時(shí)候才能做完這個(gè)工程？
2--我不知道?，F(xiàn)在來(lái)看，我們只能憑感覺(jué)了。
1--到目前為止，我們還沒(méi)有一個(gè)解決計(jì)劃。
2--“Flying by the seat of one's pants”的意思是沒(méi)有可行的計(jì)劃。
1--這個(gè)短語(yǔ)來(lái)源于早期的飛機(jī)。
2--飛行員沒(méi)有足夠的技術(shù)，來(lái)讓他們知道自己現(xiàn)在在哪里，要去哪里。
1--飛行員不得不依靠自己的判斷和大腦。
2--這就是flying by the seat of our pants現(xiàn)如今的意思！