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

• 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。
• It's much easier to imitate another speaker than it is to sound out each word according to phonetics in a dictionary!
  比起根据字典上的音标读出每个单词，模仿另外一个人的发音要容易的多。
• 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？
• Why did the God play this joke to sound out our love?
  上天为什么开这种玩笑来试探我们的缘分。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You cannot shut the sound out.
  你不能把这种声音堵起来。
• 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。