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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

verb

• try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
  1. I have to sound out the new professor
  Synonym:check outfeel out
• speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
  1. She pronounces French words in a funny way
  2. I cannot say `zip wire'
  3. Can the child sound out this complicated word?
  Synonym:pronouncearticulateenounceenunciatesay

双语例句

• It's much easier to imitate another speaker than it is to sound out each word according to phonetics in a dictionary!
  比起根据字典上的音标读出每个单词，模仿另外一个人的发音要容易的多。
• I am trying to sound out if he'd like to work for us.
  我正在试探他，看他是否愿意来为我们工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Amendment calls first plug in your headphones, headsets and handsets sound out of the question at the same time.
  改善了首先插入耳机，扬声器和听筒同时出声的问题。
• For WDR Co-Director Sarah Cliffe, the event provided an opportunity to sound out social activists and innovators working in countries vulnerable to conflict.
  《世界发展报告》编写组组长之一SarahCliffe表示，本次活动为在冲突易发国家开展工作的社会活动家和创新者发表意见提供了一次机会。
• 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。
• On the Cultivation of Law Qualities of Contemporary College Students and the Construction of Law Course; The law character that sound out the university method educates the angle of view bottom learns the teaching methods
  新时代大学生法学素质的培养与法律基础课程建设法律素质培养视角下的大学法学教学方法