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

• 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。
• 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 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
• 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。
• 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。
• And the role of differentiation is closely adapted to build the sound out of tune, love and play out the drama theme, role identity, character.
  与脚色分化相适应，建本剧出曲牌声情亦与剧出主题情事、剧中脚色身份、性格紧密配合。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。