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seat-of-the-pants

/seet-uhv-thuh-pants/US // ˈsit əv ðəˈpænts //

裤子的座位,裤衩,裤衩的位置,裤子上的座位

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : using or based on experience, instinct, or guesswork: a seat-of-the-pants management style.
    • : done without the aid of instruments: The pilot made a seat-of-the-pants landing.

Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.

  • Pierre Van Cortlandt, a distinguished revolutionary patriot, died at his seat at Croton river, aged 94.

  • Aristide clambered back to his seat, took the child on his knees, and commiserated it profoundly.

  • He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.