美 [saʊnd aʊt]
试探某人的意见：通过提问试图了解某人的意见。
调查公众意见：通过调查来了解公众的意见。
sound out // [ sounding sounded sounds ]
动词词组 If you sound someone out, you question them in order to find out what their opinion is about something. 探询
He is sounding out Middle Eastern governments on ways to resolve the conflict.
他正在探询中东各国政府解决这一冲突的方法。
... 考查;考试 [examination;examine] 试探;刺探 [sound out;spy] 通“弑”。旧称臣杀君、子杀父母等行为 [kill] ...
... 考查;考试 [examination;examine] 试探;刺探 [sound out;spy] 通“弑”。旧称臣杀君、子杀父母等行为 [kill] ...
... 假装;冒充 [feign;pretend] 用语言试探,诱使对方露真情 [sound out] 体面;俊俏 [handsome] ...
认读拼音文字，要根据记 录语音的符号，把构成一个字（word）的数个音节逐个发海外华裔青少年儿童学习中文出声音（sound out）并且拼接起来贻误了他们的中文学习，挫伤了他们的学习兴趣。
They decided to sound out her interest in the project.
他们决定试探一下她对那个项目的兴趣。
Some young children will learn to "sound out" words, but this is not true reading.
一些年轻的孩子将学习“试探”的话，但这并不是真正的阅读。
Before carrying out this marketing plan, we have to sound out the target market potential.
在实施此项销售计划之前，我们必须先试探一下目标市场的潜力。
The sound had a rougher and more rebellious edge than the highly produced country music coming out of Nashville,Tennessee.
VOA : special.2010.06.11
It doesn't sound right when other men are out there dying, so they raised taxes during World War One.
在有人战死沙场的时候,发战争财是件龌龊的事情，所以他们在第一次世界大战时这么做了。
金融市场课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
我自己作为一名英国诗人有意地,在我称作感性的声音中写出音乐感。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
"I drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound that I hear in my head to come out of the speakers.
VOA : special.2009.08.07
So when the fire alarm bell rang, men near the sound of the fire bell dropped what they were doing and rushed out to fight the fire.
VOA : special.2009.05.17
Whole Language doesn't teach youngsters to sound out syllables and words as the traditional phonics method does.
He will go to Capitol Hill to deflate the policy hopes of his conservative supporters and to sound out Democrats.
Last week central bank and finance ministry officials were in America to sound out the possibilities for raising money there.