Max sighed, sounding even more downhearted.

马克斯叹了口气，听上去更沮丧了。

He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.

他需要一个参谋，而不是独自思考。

We'll always justify our actions with noble sounding theories.

我们将始终用崇高的理论思想指导我们的行动。

I tried to emphasize my good points without sounding boastful.

我在强调自己的优点时尽量不让人觉得是在自我吹嘘。

He had a way of sounding so sincere. It made me warm and tingly.

他的话听起来如此真诚。这让我觉得温暖而舒心。

After at least eight rings, an ancient-sounding maid answered the phone.

电话至少八声后，一位听上去很老的女仆接了。

"That is beautiful, Tony," Momma said, no longer sounding at all snappish.

“真美呀，托尼，”妈妈说道，话里的呵斥腔调不见了。

Many literary academics simply parrot a set of impressive-sounding phrases.

许多文化人只是机械地模仿一套听上去令人印象深刻的说辞。

He is sounding out Middle Eastern governments on ways to resolve the conflict.

他正在探询中东各国政府解决这一冲突的方法。

At the risk of sounding self-pitying, I'd say it has been harder on me than it has on Joanne.

尽管听着像是自怜，我还是要说这对我比对乔安妮更难承受。

There were 15 minutes between the first air raid alert and the sounding of the all-clear signal.

从第一个空袭警报到警报解除号音其间有15分钟。

Dozens of company boards are now discreetly sounding out venture capitalists to see if they will support management buyouts.

十几家公司的董事会正在谨慎地试探风险投资者，以了解他们是否支持管理层收购。

"I can't get it out!" I shouted, my voice sounding unnaturally loud in the enclosed space.

“我拔不出来了！”我喊道，我的声音在这个封闭的空间里听起来异常响亮。

Her grave is by the sounding sea.

她的墓地在涛声回荡的大海边。

Sounding real is not the same as being real.

听上去真实并不表示它就是真实的。

She woke up sounding like someone from England.

她醒来时说话听起来就像个英国人。

She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m.

她完全不介意闹钟在凌晨4点响起来。

People said, "The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting."

人们说：“晚钟响了，太阳下山了。”

After a while, I heard no more of the romantic-sounding Italians.

过了一会儿，我再也听不到意大利人美妙浪漫的声音了。

As the sound got louder, it became more distorted, fuzzy-sounding.

声音越大，音色越失真，听起来越不清楚。

"No, I am not," Mary answered, her own whisper sounding half frightened.

“不，我不是。”玛丽低声回答说，她自己的声音听起来也有点害怕。

Misunderstandings happen sometimes because of the similar sounding words.

由于发音相似，有时会产生误解。

From there, they could hear the peaceful-sounding bells of the grazing cattle below.

他们可以在那里听到下面放牧的牛群发出的祥和的铃铛声。

We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it.

我们会为此争论不休，甚至可能以国家的身份做出一些听起来相当严肃的承诺来庄重的承诺来避免这种情况发生。

We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn sounding commitments to avoid it.

我们将为此争论不休，甚至可能作为一个国家作出一些相当庄严的承诺来避免它。

Two similar sounding English words also caused trouble for a man who wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Oakland.

两个发音相似的英语单词也给一个想从洛杉矶飞往奥克兰的人带来了麻烦。

He liked to hear the bugles sounding down the long corridors, and the distant voices responding, "Way for the King!"

他喜欢听那长长的走廊里传来的号角声，以及远处回应的声音：“给国王让路！”

Night-jars, sounding their mechanical rattle, made him think that the wood was full of searching warders, closing in on him.

欧夜鹰发出呆板的嘎嘎声，使他觉得树林里到处都是搜查他的卫兵，正在向他逼近。

When similar sounding words cause a misunderstanding, probably the best thing to do is just to laugh and learn from the mistake.

当发音相似的词引起误解时，最好的办法可能就是一笑而过，并从错误中吸取教训。

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

一项关于20世纪70年代英国口音的研究发现，听起来像BBC新闻播报员的声音被认为是最具魅力的声音。