making it up as we went along

Chinese translation: 摸着石头过河

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English term or phrase:	making it up as we went along
Chinese translation:	摸着石头过河
Entered by:	Zilin Cui

21:03 Jun 25, 2013

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English term or phrase: making it up as we went along

What excites you about game development today?
When I came in it was like we didn’t know what the hell we were doing. We didn’t have any idea how to do user controls or cameras or first-person-perspective games. They were primitive. We had no clue, so we were {making it up as we went along}.

注：主人公Warren Spector is a name known well by dedicated PC gamers.

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摸着石头过河

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this is pretty straightforward since we have the equivalent in Chinese already

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Local time: 11:49

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摸着石头过河

Zilin Cui

即兴创作

justin-zhang

摸索而行/摸索着干

justin-zhang

見步行步

David Lin

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摸着石头过河

Explanation:
this is pretty straightforward since we have the equivalent in Chinese already

Zilin Cui
Local time: 11:49
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 19

Grading comment

谢谢！

4 hrs confidence:

摸索而行/摸索着干

Explanation:
摸着石头过河挺好的。

在此提供另一种译法，仅供参考。

我们毫无头绪，所以只能摸索而行/摸索着干。
We had no clue, so we were {making it up as we went along}.

justin-zhang
China
Local time: 23:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Chinese

13 hrs confidence:

見步行步

Explanation:
a less wordy version but the same meaning as other translations for your consideration. See the example below.

Example sentence(s):

I told the kids a story, making it up as I went along. 我给孩子讲了个故事，是现编的。

David Lin
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:49
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Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 12

16 hrs confidence:

即兴创作

Explanation:
在词典中找到了这个短语的解释。

1. Definition (v.) improvise, do something without planning it

http://www.englishbaby.com/vocab/word/10542/make-it-up-as-yo...

improvise,
即兴(或即席)创作；即兴(或即席)表演：临时拼凑

game development游戏开发就是一种创作，作者创作之前毫无头绪，故而只能即兴创作，临时有什么奇思妙想，就变成创作了。

justin-zhang
China
Local time: 23:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Chinese

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