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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• I am trying to sound out if he'd like to work for us.
  我正在试探他，看他是否愿意来为我们工作。
• In mine, I can't get enough sound out of it!
  但是换成我来演奏，则得不到足够的音量。