It was a finely honed piece of writing.

那是一篇经过仔细推敲写成的文章。

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In the last one hundred years or so, chemists and especially organic chemists have transformed the science of creating molecules to the level of a finely honed art.

过去100年至今，化学家尤其是有机化学家把创造分子转变成一项精细的艺术。

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People who have achieved great things often credit for their success a finely honed skill for paying attention.

获得伟大成就的人们总是把自己的成功归功于经过磨练的注意力。

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Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.

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

ECONOMIST: Religion