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小词详解 | prune
prune 英 [pruːn] 美 [pruːn]
Portugal's prime minister is planning a drastic but timely pruning.
葡萄牙总理正计划进行一次大幅度但及时的精简。
——《经济学人》In the future, sleep medicines might precisely target the molecules involved in sleep, ensuring that synapses get properly pruned.
在将来,睡眠药物或许可以精确瞄准参与睡眠的分子,确保突触得到适当的修剪。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 通过切除枯死的或蔓生的枝或茎来修剪(树木、灌木或灌木丛),尤指为了促进其生长
员工的数量因成本急剧上升已精简到180人。
Staff numbers have been pruned back to 180 due to spiralling costs.那个著名建筑师不断地修改这个设计已经好长时间了。我想现在他正在把无关紧要的细节统统删掉。
The eminent architect has been fiddling about with this design for ages. I guess he is pruning out any unnecessary details now.
那天发生的事只剩一片模糊的记忆。我只记得她用下午的时间修剪了玫瑰。
The events of that day were just a blur. I only remember that she spent the afternoon pruning roses.
Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited.
让我们保留必须保留的,改进能够改进的,并取缔那些应该禁止的行为。
clip: cut short or trim (hair, vegetation, etc.) with shears or scissors shear: cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears trim: make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts