sounding board
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈsounding board noun [countable usually singular]TRY something TO SEE IF IT IS GOOD someone you discuss your ideas with in order to see if they think your ideas are good 被征询意见的人，决策咨询人sounding board for John always used her as a sounding board for new ideas. 约翰有新想法总是征询她的意见。
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sounding board• Now he was happy enough to let Rickards impose on his solitude to use him as a sounding board.• She had been a check and balance for her husband, a sounding board and humanizing influence.• The role which the tutor should adopt is that of a sounding board for students' ideas and suggestions.• They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers' problems.• Elfed, a sober and upright man who was to become unfairly the sounding board for Richard's first rebellions.ˈsounding board nounChineseSyllable
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ˈsounding board
noun
[countable usually singular] someone you discuss your ideas with in order to see if they think your ideas are good
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John always used her as a sounding board for new ideas.
ˈsounding board
noun[countable usually singular] someone you discuss your ideas with in order to see if they think your ideas are good
sounding board for