sounding board

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Often a good advisor is more sounding board and less Magic-8 ball.
通常一個好的建議者更像是被建議者的共鳴板，而不是佔卦未來的魔力8號球。
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，庫尅先生平易近人，這些年來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.