sound out
英 [saʊnd aʊt]
美 [saʊnd aʊt]
试探,探询(…的意见)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 试探,探询(…的意见)
If yousoundsomeoneout, you question them in order to find out what their opinion is about something.- He is sounding out Middle Eastern governments on ways to resolve the conflict...
他正在探询中东国家的政府要如何解决这次冲突。 - Sound him out gradually. Make sure it is what he really wants.
要慢慢地打探他的口风,要确保是他的心里话。
- He is sounding out Middle Eastern governments on ways to resolve the conflict...
英英释义
verb
- try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
- I have to sound out the new professor
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- She pronounces French words in a funny way
- I cannot say `zip wire'
- Can the child sound out this complicated word?
双语例句
- He says his trip to China is an attempt to sound out Chinese world views.
他说他的访华之行是想探询一下中国对世界问题的看法。 - But as bankers sound out investors, they had better be prepared to give a lot of ground.
但在银行家试探投资者之时,最好拿出有力的理由。 - Why did the God play this joke to sound out our love?
上天为什么开这种玩笑来试探我们的缘分。 - Mr. Dietrich says he has made two visits to China in the past four months to sound out possible investors.
迪特里希称,他在过去四个月来两次到访中国,寻觅可能的投资者。 - Black holes and their acoustic analogues have perhaps begun to light the path and sound out the way.
而黑洞和它的声学类比,也许正要开始照亮前路。 - If I hear one more sound out of you, I'm gonna heip them do it.
如果让我再听到你的声音,我就帮他们了结你。 - We can sound out the opinions of your prospective audience.
我们可以试探一下你们未来听众的意见。 - Therefore, through the formation of cooperatives, cooperative members can not only get more valuable agricultural information, they can spread their sound out through the cooperative.
因此,通过组建合作社,社员既可以通过合作社获得更多的有价值的农业信息,又可以将自己的声音通过合作社传播出去。 - You can still hear a lot of Dolly on my first records, but I worked hard to get her sound out of my voice.
我开始出的几张唱片中仍能听到很多多莉的声音,不过我努力打造自己的声音。 - This is a constructionist approach to learning: the children are given the phonic tools to construct and sound out new words by themselves.
这是学习语言的一种结构型方式:给孩子们一种能够自己组合新词、念出新词的语音工具。