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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If your child does try to "sound out" words, encourage the use of letter sounds ( phonics) rather than "alphabet names".
  如果你的孩子试图正确读出单词时，鼓励他们使用自然拼音法而不是字母表名字。
• 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 UK would face severe financial penalties if it decided to cancel or cut this number and has now started to sound out potential buyers for all or part of its order.
  如果英国决定取消或者削减购买这些战斗机的数量，将面临严重经济处罚。该国已开始物色能吞掉其全部或部分订单的潜在买家。
• You cannot shut the sound out.
  你不能把这种声音堵起来。