| 单词 | sounding board |
| 释义 | sounding board (once / 30152 pages) n A sounding board is someone with whom you can try out an idea or practice making an argument. The reaction of your sounding board gives you an idea of how your eventual audience will react. A writer might have a good friend who acts as a sounding board, reading drafts of her novel before she submits it to a publisher. Big companies also use sounding boards, trying out new products or ideas on them to gauge how successful they might be. The original, literal sounding board is a device — often an actual board that vibrates — meant to help amplify a speaker's voice from a stage, podium, or pulpit. WORD FAMILYsounding board: sounding boards USAGE EXAMPLES“I was a sounding board for them and it was their decision,” Claeys said. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) The post, titled "Is a Tweet policy?" on "The Sounding Board," a forum on the State Department's intranet, prompted thoughtful, though equally perplexed, comments. Reuters(Dec 15, 2016) They became close friends, and Mr. Johnson became a sounding board for Mr. Schultz. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1n a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 2n (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument Syn|Hyper soundboard cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
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