on the fly

a) technical while a computer program is actually running 〔计算机程序〕在运行过程中

The code is translated on the fly.

程序运行过程中会进行编码转换。

b) while dealing with a situation, rather than before dealing with it 在处理过程中，在进行过程中

So far, policy is being made on the fly.

到目前为止，政策都是在进行过程中制定的。

Examples from the Corpus

on the fly• Sometimes you have to make decisions on the fly.• This root is then stored and may be accessed in the lexicon at run-time rather than determined on the fly.• Taco Bell: The burritos and fajitas are among the easiest foods to eat on the fly.• Java applets are capable of handling a wide variety of graphic formats as well as creating graphics on the fly.• Lee Ann took all her clothes off and lay down to sun herself on the flying bridge.• Some one more determined could probably find some flat back-road routes, but doing it on the fly proved beyond us.• This time, I got it there on the fly.• Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others, like Interleaf, do the whole thing on the fly.• The run-time code is loaded on to a real processor and translated on the fly into the chip's native instruction set.

→ on the fly at fly2(6)

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