Add to that the good war of a born eavesdropper, carefully honed on a lot of strangers in foreign train compartments

此外，他生就一对善于偷听的耳朵，经过在异国火车车厢里听众多陌生人谈话的苦心磨练，变得更灵敏。

Theoretical Analysis on Lubrication and Wear-Resisting of the Honed Cylinder Liner

激光微珩磨缸套润滑耐磨性能理论分析

His wife, a tiny woman with the profile of a finely honed hatchet

他的妻子是个矮小干枯的女人，从侧面上看去就像是一把短短的打磨精细的斧头柄。

His loner instincts are honed sharp by the spying game

他那深居简出的性格就是在长期的谍报工作中磨炼出来的。

The advance team was at the peak of their self-confidence, honed by political campaigns to a razor-edge

这个先遣班子，由于在竞选运动中的磨炼，正是锋芒毕露达到了自信的顶峰。

||1: If you had the good fortune to sit next to Garret FitzGerald at dinner—wrapped round by his natural warmth and curiosity, as well as numbed by the sheer volume of Dublin-tinctured words that tumbled out of him—you might learn many dozens of mind-bogglingly arcane facts.||2:The quickest way to fly from Reykjavik to Vilnius in 1960, a skill he had honed in his first proper job as an analyst for Aer Lingus; the route of the now-defunct railway from Farranfore to Reenard via Cahersiveen, the fruit of his love of all train timetables; the relative popularity over time of his own Fine Gael party and the rival Fianna Fail in county councils the length and breadth of Ireland, derived from an obsession with opinion polls so immense that journalists were cautioned not to mention them; and the precise geographical pattern of the decline in the use of Irish between 1770 and 1870, compiled from old census volumes which he would prop on the car dashboard when being driven, on constituency visits, from place to place.

||1:如果你有幸在晚餐时坐在Garret FitzGerald旁边——置身于他天生的热情与好奇中，谈定地听着他都柏林味十足的口音在那里滔滔不绝——你也许能得知很多神秘的事实，开阔了眼界。||2:60年代从Reykjavik飞到Vilnius最快的途径；他首次在一份体面的工作中（爱尔兰航空公司的一名分析员）习得的技能；那条已经不存在的铁路——通过Cahersiveen从Farranfore到Reenard；他最喜欢的列车时刻表；共和党对那段出风头的时光和统一党称霸爱尔兰各乡镇委的时候，民意调查里那些说不清道不明的事，有些就是记者也小心地不去提及；以及根据他拜访各选区时，从各地收集到的旧的人口普查宗卷中所得出的1770到1870间爱尔兰语的使用率，下降趋势，在地图板块上的精确表现。

||1:BUSINESS power follows economic power.||2:In the 1920s British firms owned 40% of the global stock of foreign direct investment.||3:By 1967 America was top dog, with a 50% share.||4:Behind those figures lie cultural revolutions.||5:The British spread the telegraph and trains in Latin America.||6:American firms sold a vision of the good life, honed by Hollywood and advertising.||7:Kellogg’s changed what the rich world ate for breakfast, and Kodak how it remembered holidays.||8:The next corporate revolution, as we describe in our special report this week, is happening in Asia.||9:This too will change how the world lives.

||1:商业能力紧随经济实力。||2:1920年代，英国公司拥有40%的全球海外直接投资股票。||3:截至1967年，美国以50%的市场份额雄霸世界。||4:这些数字的背后是文化革命。||5:英国将电报机和铁路传至拉丁美洲。||6:美国公司则通过好莱坞和广告营造了一副美好生活的憧憬。||7:家乐氏公司改变了发达国家人们桌上的早餐，柯达则定格了人们对于假期的美好回忆。||8:下一场公司革命，就如同我们在本周的特别报道中描述的一样，将发生在亚洲。||9:这也同样会改变我们生活的世界。

The good news for Apple’s investors is that the firm has been given a great head start in the battle for dominance of this emerging tech landscape thanks to Mr Jobs, whose vision of the future has been honed over a long and tumultuous career.

对于苹果的投资者们来说，好消息是，多亏了乔布斯，苹果公司在抢夺科技领域领导地位的竞争中占据非常有利的地位。

The actual tests would employ the well-honed methods of operant conditioning, developed initially on pigeons, in which the test subject has first to work out what is going on by trial and error.

实际的测试会采用精确的操作性条件反射方法，测试对象首先要清楚实验的过程和错误。

useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.

有着实用的生存机制以及对世界的经验法则的区域，它们都经历了数百万年进化的磨砺。

"They’ve got very strong skills, often honed by working in financial services. "

“他们的能力非常强，金融服务业的工作经历磨练了他们的能力。”

The quickest way to fly from Reykjavik to Vilnius in 1960, a skill he had honed in his first proper job as an analyst for Aer Lingus;

1960年他找到一条从雷克雅维克飞往维尔纽斯的最快航线，这是他在给爱尔兰航空公司当分析员时练就的一项本领，那是他第一份体面的工作。

She honed her operational skills in Asia, appointed in 1997 to run the South Pacific region which includes Australia and Indonesia.

1997年受命管理包括澳大利亚和印度尼西亚在内的南太平洋区的明尼克，在亚洲锻炼了自己的运营技巧。

Aside from Jedi training, Anakin honed his piloting skills through formal training on Coruscant.

除了绝地训练外，阿纳金也在科洛桑的正式训练中磨炼了自己的飞行技术。

Here his arguments are well-rehearsed and finely honed from decades of combating American fundamentalists.

此处他的论据编排得有条不紊，磨练于数十年来与美国原教旨主义者的斗争。

But obviously, if you have it in you, it can be honed to perfection.

但是，显而易见，如果你自身具备艺术素养，便能够磨炼得炉火纯青。

But it is through communicating on as many levels as possible that our distinctive skills are honed .

但这只能通过尽可能多层次的沟通才能使我们的技能与众不同。

Southeast Asian nations have honed different strategies for living next to the Chinese manufacturing juggernaut.

东南亚国家为在比邻强大的中国制造力量中求生存而研究了不同策略。

The highly mobile Indian diaspora translates into a wealth of overseas experience that can be tapped and honed in the workplace.

高度流动的印度裔群体转化成海外经验方面的财富，可以在职场得到发掘和磨砺。

Many players, coaches, executives, and referees have honed their skills in the CBA before going on to NBA careers.

很多运动员、教练、执行官和裁判在转入NBA职业比赛之前，已在CBA经过了磨练。

Finely weighted words that reflect the best of Vatican diplomacy, honed over centuries.

很好掂量的言辞体现了最好的梵蒂冈外交，也磨练数百年。

Even if choice is guided by unconscious instinct, that instinct will usually have been honed by natural selection to do the right thing.

即便选择是无意识的，由于人的本能倾向于做对事，其结果也不会太坏。

She honed her debating skills at college.

她在大学时便练就了辩论技巧。

His feel for radio, especially, had been honed by years spent as a sports commentator on local radio in Iowa.

里根善于运用广播，特别凭借自己多年在衣阿华州一家当地电台工作时练就的本领。

Michael was not only honed for his beautiful sound of music, but also for his excellent dance.

迈可尔被人们所称道的不仅是他的天籁之音，还有他的卓越的舞技。

It was a finely honed piece of writing.

那是一篇经过仔细推敲写成的文章。

Mr Spitzer’s arrogant ways, honed as he fought fraud on Wall Street, caused political gridlock in Albany, the state capital.

前市长MrSpitzer傲慢的行事，比如广为流传的他与华尔街的骗子的斗争，引起了纽约州首府Albany的政治对抗。

The lack of a formal, well-honed governance approach plagues and continues to stall organizations in SOA adoption.

缺乏精心设计的正式治理方法仍是个困扰，并会继续阻碍组织的SOA采用。

His body was honed to perfection.

他的身体锻炼得十全十美。

They will argue that Google’s turn-by-turn apps are inferior to their well honed market leading products.

他们会吵到，Google的转由转动应用系统比起他们久经磨练的市场主导型产品比较低级。