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1 Swords were honed, shields polished, helmets daubed with grease so that the monster should not seize them easily to bite off their heads.

2 Its popularity was analogous to the way artists flocked to Paris in the 1920s to hone their craft under the tutelage of the masters there.

3 You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body.

4 At the Four-foot SPT, Mary Jackson conducted tests of the Apollo capsule and other components, honing their fitness for the portion of the journey that would take place in the supersonic speed regime.

5 I spent three years at Miss Preston’s honing my combat skills, refining my manners, getting an education.

6 He had no trace of lameness, and his speed was honed.

7 She was a honed blade made by the King of Assassins for his own profit.

8 They hone for the farm life.

他们渴望农村生活.

9 Certainly her strongest trait, the talent that gave support to all the others, derived from her father: a fine- honed sense of organization.

10 Once you hone your communication skills, you'll see results.

一旦您完善了你的沟通技巧, 你会看到结果.

11 Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation.

12 We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.

13 Lower and lower the dragon flew, in great spiraling circles, honing in, it seemed, upon one of the smaller lakes.

14 A season in the junkyard had honed my reflexes: I’d learned to listen for the low grunt that escaped Dad’s lips whenever he tossed something heavy, and when I heard it I hit the dirt.

15 He never stopped thinking about his argument, honing it, and figuring out how to put it across better in future editions of the book.

16 And as Antain honed his skills and as his eye became clear and cunning and as his designs became more and more clever, so too did his renown increase.

17 “Cain proved the physical transformative effects, and Kaltain proves the ability to influence thoughts and emotions. I would like to test its full ability to hone the minds of a few others.”

18 They hone our minds.

是他们磨练了我们的心智.

19 Rowan wanted to despise all of this, but there was something about honing one’s skill, no matter the nature of that skill, that was rewarding.

20 It stood between the stables, for fifty hones, and the cowsheds.

1 磨练

fire annealing chasten

2 磨石

millstone whetstone burr grindstone quernstone strickle quern-stone

3 油石

whetstone oilstone

4 训练

practice education training drill discipline orientation coaching conditioning school condition teach train exercise coach educate groom practise programme

5 修饰

qualifying modifying touch qualify modify titivate

6 磨

mill grind whet edge rub grinding molar milling sharp fray burnish skive

7 渴望

keen eager anxious dying avid greedy thirsty impatient longing wishful yearning ravenous wistful passional athirst emulous sharp-set lickerish hungrily anxiety rage hunger aspiration itch craving lust thirst yen eagerness impatience solicitude prurience thirstiness hungriness pruriency long water die dream burn pant pine crave aspire ache starve weary groan yearn languish desire agog passionary keen-set sick hungry ambitious itchy covetous solicitous prurient longed-for raring list itching gape Eros appetency desiderium fain sigh hanker covet ambition adore desiderate gape after set heart on gasp for

8 磨刀石

rubstone stone whetstone knife grinder rubber rub

9 磨炼

crucible try chasten

10 抱怨

bitter railing malcontent grievance rhubarb mutter rail complain crab fuss grouse holler croak grump kvetch grutch grumble complaint grief whine howl gripe squeal yap grouch plaint bellyache schmear yawp gravamen naffing belch poor-mouth kick bind beef bitch moan groan quarrel whimper yammer grizzle crib rain on

11 怀念

afterglow pine yearn regret