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sound

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vt. 听（诊）；测量，测…深；使发声；试探；宣告
n. 声音，语音；噪音；海峡；吵闹；听力范围；[医] 探条
adj. 健全的，健康的；合理的；可靠的；有效彻底的
adv. 彻底地，充分地
vi. 听起来；发出声音；回响；测深

考试真题

While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

I'm extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail, explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies.

They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.

Snow White is available for everyone to use, but the dwarfs are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters ( ' , Grumpy Gus, Dopey Dan) to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

From there, it's up to you to sound the alarm manually.

There’s one sound that gets a big reaction from kids on a hot day: the sound of an ice-cream truck.

The enemy fled, believing the sounds to be the warning voicesof angels.

It sounds almost too good to be true.

That sounds like a bad deal for the power company, but it's not

Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, cancelled a conference in Las Vegas at the last minute and rebooked it in San Francisco, which cost more but sounded less fun.

The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

The sound equipment has to be set up.

You sounded very excited about it!

I'm no expert, but that noise in your refrigerator doesn't sound right.

There's one sound that gets a big reaction from kids on a hot day: the sound of an ice-cream truck.

While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

Of course, that may sound like a description of every teenager on the planet.

Good, sound science depends on hypotheses, experiments and reasoned methodologies.

Having your personal satellite launched into orbit might sound like an idea straight out of science fiction.

If it doesn't sound like too much of a cliché, our world is constantly changing and it's changing quickly.

It is important to buy the insurance from companies that are financially sound and that are represented by honest, well- trained agents.

Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

Stereotype may sound like a bad word, but there is nothing bad about it.

That doesn't sound like too much work.

A company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was beyond our range, so we declined.

Before birth, babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and voices.

Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

Everyone is supposed to put books back to the shelves when the closing bell is sounded.

Female Australian superb fairy wrens were found to repeat one sound over and over again while hatching their eggs.

Fewer emissions and cheaper travel sound pretty appealing.

First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in queensland before and after hatching.

For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds.

How does the author sound when telling the story?

How does the man sound at the end of the conversation？.

Hurrying to school every day and having to pass exams sounds a bit too much for her.

I was extremely inspired by the elegant way the words sounded.

If you're tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful.

It only has one bedroom, but it sounds nice, near lake street.

It sounds like everything goes well.

Most people said this accent sounded 'educated' and 'soft'.

Next time you take a walk, no matter where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations.

Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to cross a frozen body of water called Norton Sound.

One of their neighbors had written to complain about the sound of the piano.

She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound.

Sounds too good to be true?

Studies have shown that the right and left ear process sound differently.

That sounds like a good idea.

The numbers might sound small, but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend.

They are potential powers we possess: energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideas — even physical strength greater than most of US realize.

This isn't as hard as it sounds, and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while reading an interesting piece of literature.

This sounds very interesting! It's on South Street.

Travel through 100 of the most unbelievable years in world history and learn why being a Roman emperor wasn't always as good as it sounds.

Upon hearing the teacher's talk, the children probably felt that it sounded too good to be true.

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

Where we use sound and sight to communicate, ants depend primarily on pheromone, chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony.

While he sounded the alarm, a student from leeds climbed down the cliff to collect Judy.

With naomi's help, the goodwin family found a sound engineer to record Naomi playing Steve's songs.

With rainbows forming in the splashing water around you and the sound of huge drops of water bouncing off your body and face, it is truly exciting.

Yet they feel they can know you just from the sound of your voice.

The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

Subsequent experiments reproduced this effect with other stimuli, such the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and photographs of disgusting insects.

The court's ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

This might sound small, but to undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been necessary.