Without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher.
巴克马上从副队长那里借了一把刀子，随后他像屠户一样沉着自若地用磨刀石把刀子磨好。

Yes. I phoned him yesterday afternoon. He said hes coming back next week.
第二天, 这二人是在下午了开车转转。

He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news.
当他的经纪人在电话里告诉他这些的时候，他笑得无法自制。

As the days passed, Diana pined for her prince and yet he never telephoned.
日子一天天过去，戴安娜望眼欲穿地等着她的王子，却连一个电话都没有等到。

Most of the plasma is siphoned into a third attached bag.
大部分血浆被吸入到第三个附加袋中。

I phoned the squadron at their base and immediately booked a flight to Washington.
我打电话给空军中队并立即预定了一张去华盛顿的机票。

Hermiones talents at blackmail are once again honed on Rita Skeeter.
赫敏在敲诈方面得天赋又一次在丽塔基特身上得到应用。

a Mrs Blair telephoned
一位布莱尔夫人打电话了

She phoned the shop and ordered a couple of CDs.
她给商店打电话定购了两张CD。

The farmer siphoned water from the cellar into the ditch.
农夫从地窖中抽取水至水沟中。

She has phoned me up for a chat.
她给我打电话聊天。

I siphoned the gasoline out of the car into a can.
我用虹吸管把汽车里的汽油抽到桶里。

I'm not very clear why he phoned last week.
我不是很确定他上周为什么会打电话。

This time the costume juxtapositions and colour codes were even more finely honed than usual.
这次, 服装与色彩的搭配甚至比平时更加精雕细琢。

The language communication honed my will and gave me confidence.
这些语言上的沟通磨炼了我的意志，给了我自信。

His body is honed and kept in trim with constant exercise.
他经常运动，以锻炼身体和保持身材。

My various experiences honed my ability in coping with different workloads.
我的各种经历磨练了我的能力, 以应对不同的工作量。

Public funds were siphoned off by corrupt officials.
公共基金被腐败的官员挪用了。

The Foreign Secretary telephoned his Italian counterpart to protest.
外交部长致电意大利外长表示抗议。

And Homo sapiens are one small leaf on a very extensive Tree of Life, that's densely populated by organisms that have been honed for survival.
智人只是有着 数百万年历史的 生命之树上的

It's my personal philosophy, honed from years of trial and error.
这是我从多年累积的错误中得出的处世之道

The excess could be siphoned off or removed with a pipette.
过剩样品可以虹吸出或者用移液管将其除去。

English idioms which are honed and polished for a long time are very expressive.
经过长期千锤百炼的英语成语表现力异常丰富。

It was a finely honed piece of writing.
那是一篇经过仔细推敲写成的文章。

They siphoned off some fluid for tests.
他们抽走一些流体以供检验。