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honed

/hohnd/US // hoʊnd //

训练有素的,训练有素,训练有素的人,珩磨过的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sharpened on a hone or whetstone: Our julienne peeler has 12 honed blades for superfine cuts that will make your julienne vegetables look like a restaurant’s.
    • : made more acute or effective; improved or perfected: We finish our degrees with highly desirable, finely honed skills, including how to research, how to work hard, and how to think critically.
    • : enlarged with a hone: When it comes to the barrel of this rifle, the diameter uniformity and roundness of the honed bore are superb.

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Examples

  • So it’s hoping to be able to keep honing the model’s accuracy.

  • As a chef and a man, Posey honed his bold self-possession, despite being born into chattel slavery in Virginia.

  • Around that time, Jung began to hone his notion of synchronicity in preparation for developing a treatise on the subject.

  • Rosen argued that lawyers needed to get more evidence and hone their case for charging Zinke with lying to federal investigators, according to people familiar with the matter.

  • If he feels like he can carry the weight, then we really want him to really hone in on his flexibility and his first-step quickness.

  • Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

  • Fueled by a well-honed messaging and technology-driven targeting, an otherwise unknown candidate sailed into office.

  • His skills have also been honed working for the GOP presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.

  • It requires a finely honed sense of timing and a griddle that has been seasoned just right.

  • When Veep returned Sunday night, its sharp-tongued writing was honed to a perfect razor edge.

  • He had never seen her look more beautiful, but it was the icy beauty of a honed dagger.

  • These should be fined or honed to a perfect point, and the abrupt part of the barb filed down one-half.

  • But, do you know, there is no sentence I might utter that has a keener, a more freshly honed razor-edge to it than that.

  • This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor.

  • He went out to where his followers made grisly zinging noises where they honed their knives.