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

• 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。
• At the time of the Olympics, I will be in the presidency of the European Union, so I have to sound out and consult my fellow members to see whether or not we should boycott, he said.
  萨克奇表示：奥运会召开时，我将担任欧盟轮值主席，所以我必须了解一下成员国的想法，与之进行磋商，看我们是否应该抵制。
• I have to sound out the new professor.
  我得试探一下新来的教授。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The law character that sound out the university method educates the angle of view bottom learns the teaching methods
  法律素质培养视角下的大学法学教学方法
• 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。