hone，主要用作为动词、名词，作动词时译为“训练（尤指技艺）；磨（刀）；用磨刀石磨；（使）更锋利（或更强烈等）；发牢骚；渴望”；作名词时译为“（细）磨石；（制造磨刀石的）磨石块；(Hone) （美）霍恩（人名）”。

根据柯林斯英汉双解大词典：

意为：

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. 磨砺

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

hone gate 喇叭形进模口 ; 喇叭形浇口

scraper hone 刮刀磨石

horizontal hone 卧式磨床

hone banking 与家庭银行

Hone combat 磨练战斗

hone will 磨练意志

butterfly hone 蝶形磨石

hip hone 髋骨

HEAD HONE 耳机插孔

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

只是在那个时候，我们在主动地，有意识地磨砺我们的性格。

他说：“我应该以一种更平等的方式帮助他磨练自己的社交技能。这也是他现在正缺少的。”

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

经过持续的练习和训练，你的身体和心智得到磨练，你从而具备了冠军的直觉和反应力。