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
- 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。 - 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。 - I have to sound out the new professor.
我得试探一下新来的教授。 - We'll have to sound out the opposition before we decide what action to take.
在我们采取行动以前，我们得探探反对派的口气。 - The band does not sound out of tune to me, but then I've no ear for music.
对我来说，乐队没有走调，不过我没有欣赏音乐的才能。 - 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。 - 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。 - When we took the sound out of your head, and it came to life.
我们把那声音从你头里取出来，它却到你的生活里来了。 - 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。