Sounding

(noun.) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line).

(noun.) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line.

(adj.) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; 'harsh-sounding' .

(adj.) having volume or deepness; 'sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal'; 'the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion'- Wordsworth .

录入:米歇尔

• While the disturbance which travels out from a sounding body is commonly called a wave, it is by no means like the type of wave best known to us, namely, the water wave. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Robert Jordan heard the ax sounding in the woods behind him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I was dumb when she leaned beside the harp again, playing it, but not sounding it, with her right hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If a light cork ball on the end of a thread is brought in contact with a sounding fork, the ball does not remain at rest, but vibrates back and forth, being driven by the moving prongs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He hit the book a sounding blow with his open hand, and struck out of it a stronger smell of stale tobacco than ever. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The shouting and the noise continued, sounding horrid through the dusk, over the surface of the water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The palm of Silas Wegg descends with a sounding smack upon the palm of Venus, and Wegg lavishly exclaims, 'Twin in opinion equally with feeling! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• If the period of any one of the objects corresponds with the period of the sounding body, the gentle but frequent impulses affect the object, which responds by emitting a sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The waves sent out by a sounding body fall upon all surrounding objects and by their repeated action tend to throw these bodies into vibration. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Less direct minds would have found high-sounding ethical sanctions in which to conceal the real intent. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This he was used to, and could take soundings of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It being necessary to take soundings every minute, and to feel the way with the greatest caution, Mr Wegg's attention was fully employed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If the soundings show the following depths: 30, 25, 20, 32, 28, the average depth could be taken as 30 + 25 + 20 + 32 + 28 ÷ 5, or 27 feet. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In the morning it was found by our soundings, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We were several times chased in our passage, but outsailed everything; and in thirty days had soundings. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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