hone

hone是一個英語單詞，英式發音[həʊn]，美式發音[hoʊn]，主要用作動詞和名詞。作動詞時含義包括“磨鍊技能”“物理打磨刀具”“發牢騷；渴望”等，作名詞指磨刀石材及姓氏（如美國姓氏霍恩）。

該詞動詞用法涵蓋具體行為與抽象提升，如通過訓練最佳化技能（如錘鍊辯論技巧）、使工具鋒利（如磨刀至剃刀般銳利）及情感層面的渴求。短語搭配涉及技術術語（hone gate、scraper hone）、生理學（hip hone）及電子設備（HEAD HONE）等。機械工程領域將其作為專業術語（如珩磨機）使用。

“hone in”作為動詞短語表示“向目標集中”，雖被《Merriam-Webster》收錄，但多數語言學家視其為“home in”的誤用變體，其成因可能與語音弱化或“磨礪聚焦”的語義類推有關。該用法在美國英語中逐漸固化，並滲透至英國英語。

基本介紹

• 中文名：磨刀石
• 外文名：hone
• 英式發音：[həʊn]
• 美式發音：[hoʊn]
• 詞性：動詞、名詞

單詞用法

根據柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典：

意為：

1. N a fine whetstone, esp for sharpening razors 磨刀石

2. V-T If you hone something, for example a skill, technique, idea, or product, you carefully develop it over a long period of time so that it is exactly right for your purpose. 磨礪

3. V-T to sharpen or polish with or as if with a hone 把...磨快; 擦亮 [DIALECT]

4. V to yearn or pine 渴望; 渴慕

同近義詞

• n. [機]磨刀石；想念；抱怨complaint , sharpening stone

短語搭配

hone gate 喇叭形進模口 ; 喇叭形澆口

scraper hone 刮刀磨石

horizontal hone 臥式磨床

hone banking 與家庭銀行

Hone combat 磨練戰鬥

hone will 磨練意志

butterfly hone 蝶形磨石

hip hone 髖骨

HEAD HONE 耳機插孔

雙語例句

1.It is at that point that we begin to actively, intentionally hone our characters.

只是在那個時候，我們在主動地，有意識地磨礪我們的性格。

2."I should have been more of an equal and helped him hone his social skills, which I feel he still lacks," he says.

他說：“我應該以一種更平等的方式幫助他磨練自己的社交技能。這也是他現在正缺少的。”

3.With constant practice and training, you hone your body, your mind and your heart and gain the intuition and reflexes of a champion.

經過持續的練習和訓練，你的身體和心智得到磨練，你從而具備了冠軍的直覺和反應力。

• But he has started to hone a recession strategy of his own. 他已經開始在琢磨一個自己的應付經濟衰退的策略。
• The solution here is to hone in on your goal, desire, or dream. 這樣的解決辦法其實就是對你的目標、願望或者是夢想的打磨，沒有人生來便會跑。
• Equally as importantly, hone your skills whenever possible. 同等重要的是，一有可能就修煉你的專業技能。
• These tools give powerful ways to craft, test, and hone regexps. 這些工具提供了強大的功能，用於編寫、測試和最佳化 regexp。
• Using the bulleted methods above will definitely help hone your focus. 使用以上方法一定能夠幫你訓練專注力。
• Where do software developers hone their ability to reason about ethics. 軟體開發者該在哪些方面加強他們思考關於道德問題的能力呢？
• I use networking to get feedback and information so I can hone my message. 我用人際網獲得反饋及信息，以此來使我的信息更加有力有效。
• No one is born perfect. But one can hone one's skills by being true to oneself. 沒有人生來是完美的，但可以通過坦誠對待自己來不斷磨練自己早些實現生活中的重要變化，會使你所向披靡。
• I learned how easy it was to hone-in my energy and just focus on one thing. 我學會了如何將自己的精力聚焦在一件事上，而且做到這點也很容易。
• It is at that point that we begin to actively, intentionally hone our characters. 只是在那個時候，我們在主動地，有意識地磨礪我們的性格。
• It will take an imaginative thinker to hone a message at once sensible and distinct. 一個富有想像力的思考者要經過磨練才能把一條信息表達得合理清晰。
• Judge Richard Hone told him that a custodial sentence was "virtually inevitable". 法官理察·霍告訴他判處監禁是“不可避免的”。
• I \ \ \ 've identified eight areas, or know-hows, in which you must hone your judgment. 我找出八大專才領域，你需要不斷磨礪自己在這些方面的判斷力。
• This approach will provide opportunities to practice and hone your interpersonal skills. 這樣做才能提供磨練人際關係的機會。
• Hone your customer satisfaction skills, and you'll bring in a ton of repeat business. 琢磨一下使顧客滿意的技巧，會給你帶來更多再次購買的商機。
• The search giant is turning to people power to help it hone its products and services. 這家搜尋巨頭正藉助於大眾的力量來幫助它完善其產品和服務。
• This helped hone Martin's own understanding of folding, which had been a hobby of his for years. 這對深化他自己對摺疊的理解大有裨益。 多年來，摺疊已經成為他的愛好。
• He hopes Wadhwa's class will help him hone his sense of purpose and match that to his career goals. 他希望瓦德瓦的課程能幫助他增強自己的目的感，並確立自己的職業目標。
• This is a community of artisans, constantly trying to hone their skills by taking notes from one another. 敏捷社區中的人們都是工匠，他們總想通過互相學習來磨礪自己的技能。
• Partial color allows a designer to hone in on a particular part of an image and enhance it with color. 部分著色可以讓設計師用心打磨圖像的特定部分，並用顏色來提升其表現力。
• Her foster care experience helped hone a high degree of self-reliance, but she's elated to be adopted. 她的寄養經歷使她具有了很高的自理能力，但是對於馬上被收養她也感到很興奮。
• One of the secrets of great writing is the ability to edit and hone a message down to its true essence. 寫出好作品的秘密之一就是要有編輯、修改並使之表達出本質的能力。
• It launches a free automated 411 service and USES its callers' requests to hone its voice-recognition software. 它推出免費的自動411服務，然後用訪問者的請求磨練其語音識別軟體。