hone

１．今日の単語は hone です。角は horn ですからちょっと違いますね。

Students hone welding skills at Green Bay Preble (from Fox 11 News)

welding は溶接です。そのスキルを学生たちが hone しています。

Hone your communication skills at this free seminar from Franklin County Business & Professional Women (from Saint Albans Messenger)

無料のセミナーでコミュニケーションスキルを hone しませんか。

How to hone your focus for business success – The Frenchman Blaise Pascal wrote in his Provincial Letters, “If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.” As a publisher, I once looked at my long catalogue and sales report and thought if I had the insight I would have published fewer books. What the famous writer and theologian meant, and what I thought of my products is that if it were easy to focus on the key things that matter most, success would be much easier.

ビジネスでの成功に必要なのはフォーカス。その能力を hone するには？

Her debating skills were honed in the students’ union.

やはり練習や慣れが大切なんですね。ディベートのスキルが磨かれた。

He helps performers hone their skills as dancers and singers.

よい先生、よいコーチに恵まれることは大事ですね。

2.　英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認しておきましょう。

to make an object sharp:

to make something perfect or completely suitable for its purpose:

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.

砥石で研ぐ

能力などに磨きをかける、技能などを磨く

今日の単語は

hone 磨きをかける

でした

8か月前の単語は　enthrall 虜にする

https://himekurieitango.enthrall