sounding board

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Often a good advisor is more sounding board and less Magic-8 ball.
通常一个好的建议者更像是被建议者的共鸣板，而不是占卦未来的魔力8号球。
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.
一位前苹果公司的员工说，库克先生平易近人，这些年来他一直是那些试图接近乔布斯并给予意见的主管们的共鸣板。
Avoid expressing anxiety. Your homesick freshman is not your sounding board.
避免表达焦虑，你的思乡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.