sounding board

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Often a good advisor is more sounding board and less Magic-8 ball.
通常一個(gè)好的建議者更像是被建議者的共鳴板，而不是佔(zhàn)卦未來(lái)的魔力8號(hào)球。
Mr. Cook is accessible, and over the years served as a sounding board for executives who wanted advice on approaching Mr. Jobs, former Apple employees say.
一位前蘋果公司的員工說(shuō)，庫(kù)尅先生平易近人，這些年來(lái)他一直是那些試圖接近喬佈斯竝給予意見的主琯們的共鳴板。
Avoid expressing anxiety. Your homesick freshman is not your sounding board.
避免表達(dá)焦慮，你的思鄕的新生不是你的共振板。

"This is a rough-and-tumble place and it's nice to come back to two people who care about me, who care about my success, who care about the difficulties I might be having either at work or at home and just to have two friends who are a sounding board."

Vice Chairman Marc Lustgarten, 52, leaves father-and-son-team bosses Charles and James Dolan without the sounding board who resolved their sometimes clashing views.
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She served as a sounding board for his scientific ideas and helped to check the math in his papers, but eventually their relationship disintegrated.
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Ball ( BLL - news - people ), helped Bench produce a business plan and cash-flow projection and acted as a sounding board.
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a person or group of people that you use to test something such as a new idea or suggestion to see if they will accept it or if they think it will work

If you use someone as a sounding board, you discuss your ideas with them in order to get another opinion.