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

• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You cannot shut the sound out.
  你不能把这种声音堵起来。
• Why not place a trial order to sound out the market potential?
  为什么不先订购一笔试试，测探一下市场的潜力？
• The aim of this paper is to use the statistics of China's industrial enterprises to examine the effect of the policy burden upon BSC, and sound out the correctness and reliability of other competitive theoretical point of view.
  本文的目的在于用中国工业企业的统计资料来检验政策性负担对预算软约束的影响，以及其他竞争性理论观点的正确性和可靠性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。