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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I have to sound out the new professor.
  我得试探一下新来的教授。
• 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 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。