trial balloon

单词trial balloon

基本解释

n.: 试探性言论（或行动）
网络: 实验气球；试验气球；试探气球

权威解释

• 试探性言论（或行动）:

  something that you say or do to find out what people think about a course of action before you take it

英汉解释

• 测验风速的气球

• 〔比喻〕试探气球

• 测风气球

• 观测气球

例句

• Bob mentioned the class presidency to Ted as a trial balloon to see if Ted might be interested in running.

  鲍勃向特德提到班主席职位以试探特德是否热衷于参加其竞选。

• Even as RenRen is using this IPO to float its shares into the U. S. market, Wall Street seems to be using it to float a trial balloon.

  人人网正在利用此次IPO在美国股市上大肆散发其股份，另一方面，华尔街却似乎把人人的IPO看成了一个试验气球。

• So before men would go up in a balloon, they would first float (or send up) a trial balloon without any men in it to test the situation.

  所以在人进入热气球之前，他们会把一个没有人的热气球用作实验来探测环境。

• It could be simply a defensive move, but some thought it could be a trial balloon for something more intimate.

  当然，这很可能只是个防卫性举动，但有人认为，它也有可能是三方放出的一个探测气球，以试探有无可能开展进一步的合作。

• No sooner did it release its trial balloon on the Luxury Tax, than it met with a public backlash.

  课徵奢侈税才放出风向球，就因民意反弹而收手等等。

• Send up a trial balloon

  发送测试气球