smoke outfind out the facts about 查出；使…水落石出 * It took the police only a few days to smoke out the real criminal. 警察只花了几天时间就把真正的罪犯查出来了。 * The object is to smoke out the instigators of the riots. 目的就是要查出暴乱的煽动者。smoke out用烟薰出;查出：There are so many mosquitoes in the room，we have to smoke them out before we can sleep.屋里的蚊子太多，我们必须把它们用烟薰出来才能睡觉。sound sb out about / on (小心或含蓄地)试探某人的观点、意见：We have had a talk with Mary to sound her out about her marriage.我们已经跟玛丽谈过一次话，试探她对于她的婚姻的意见。 |