Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

But the minute I heart the first note of her voice, I burst into tears and I was convulsed.

可是就在我听到她唱的第一个音，我忍不住泪流满面，完全沉沦了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Well, I think everybody's got red hair at the minute because Rihanna dyed her hair red.

我想现在很多女人染红发是因为蕾哈娜染成红发了。

忘不了的生日礼物 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the beginning, Special English had one fifteen-minute news show that was broadcast to Africa and Asia once a day.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

The components come in the minute you pick your axis.

但它的分量由你所选择的坐标系确定

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight,Tuesday, the eighth of May.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

I think it's very hard to raise the definition of accredited investors because the minute you do that you're closing large numbers of people out from their ability to invest in hedge funds and they don't like that; they feel insulted, so there was a lot of angry reaction.

我认为要提高,合资格投资者的门槛很难,因为一旦实施,大量的投资者将被拒之门外,这些有能力投资对冲基金的人们,可不会开心,他们会觉得被侮辱了并因此而恼怒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

" The jester thought for a minute and said, "Well,they are all wise men, but have different ideas about the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Yeah, well, I'm actually in basic training at the minute.

其实我现在就在接受基本的训练。

英国的军人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theaters darkened for a minute in honor of Arthur Miller.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

I have the skeletal structure written up there, I've written it twice and you'll see why in a minute.

我已经把它的骨架结构画在上面了，我画了两遍，等会你就会知道为什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On Wednesday,BP officials came to the White House for what many people expected would be a twenty minute meeting.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"It's a passion for the sport, it's like,you can be that rock god for a minute, without playing anything.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Thing I've got a little procedure that could do that, but you know the simplest thing I could do is to say well, gee, wait a minute, why don't I just check to see if these are the same thing?

这两个点是同一个点么？,我已经写了一小块代码，可以提供这个功能,但是你知道的我可以做的，最简单的事情就是说好，嗯？,等等，我为什么不直接去看看,这两个东西相等不相等呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The fifteen-minute flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean about five hundred kilometers from Cape Canaveral.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

But we pride ourselves generally on 5 or so minute response times at most hours during the day.

但是我们很光荣的告诉大家大多数的时间,我们都能在5分钟左右对大家的问题做出回答。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour at the very last minute.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

And we'll talk in more detail about the ways in which it doesn't have value in a minute.

我们会更详细地讨论那些,一分钟都不值得花的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

We'll talk about humble in a minute, but I'm interested now in the word prevent, which for me is really the central word of this remarkable stanza.

我们待会再讲这个谦逊，我现在对阻止这个词很感兴趣，我认为这是这一行的中心词。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One of the most famous music videos ever on MTV was a fourteen minute piece from Michael Jackson.

VOA: special.2011.08.05

In Lolita the vision of America is minute; it's detailed; it's concrete.

洛丽塔》中美国的景象是微小细腻，然后有混凝土的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

就在那时候，一只近旁的乌鸫,唱起来，围绕着他，越发朦胧的，越来越遥远的,越来越遥远的，所有的鸟儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was the end of the twenty minute drum solo. It was goodnight Haight-Ashbury, hello Asbury Park."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

God whips out the old soul, destroys it, puts in a new one with maybe souls only last for a minute and a half.

上帝拿走旧的灵魂，毁掉，注入新的灵魂,那个灵魂可能只产生了一分半钟。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Today,Special English broadcasts thirty-minute programs by shortwave and medium wave sixteen times a day around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

For decades, ever since the mile was timed, no one broke the four minute barrier.

数十年来，自从开始一英里跑计时以来，没有人突破四分钟界限。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

There is a legal release form-- we'll talk about it in a minute--about the videoing.

里面有一张授权书,是关于视频采集的,我们一会再说这个

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选