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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。