单词：prunes
v. 修剪（树木等）( prune的第三人称单数 ); 精简某事物, 除去某事物多余的部分
v cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
v weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
prune的用法和样例：
例句
- You should prune your roses in the spring.你应该在春天修剪一下你的玫瑰花。
- It is our job to prune the side branches of these trees.我们的工作就是修剪这些树的侧枝。
- The gardener pruned the dead branches.园丁剪去枯枝。
- Next year's budget will have to be drastically pruned.下一年度的预算将大幅度削减。
- The teacher pruned the student's article of its superfluities.老师删去这个学生文章中的多余内容。
- We must prune away some of our surplus staff.我们必须把部分多余的人员精简掉。
常见句型
- It's the best time to prune.这是整枝的最好时节。
- He is pruning all the dead branches.他正在剪去所有的枯枝。
- He is pruning roses with a pruning knife.他正用修枝刀修剪玫瑰。
- We will have to prune public spending.我们将不得不削减公共开支。
- We should prune waste in the health service to reduce government spending.我们应该减少保健服务中的浪费以削减政府开支。 1
- Next year's budget will have to be drastically pruned.下一年度的预算将大幅度削减。
常用短语
- 去掉(多余部分) remove (unwanted part of anything)
- 削减(开支等) reduce (sth)
- 从…去掉,删掉 remove (unwanted parts) from (sth)
- 剪掉 cut offprune sth ⇔ off
Please prune the twigs off.
请将小枝剪下。
These straggly stems should be pruned off.
这些蔓生枝条该剪了。
词汇搭配
- prune drastically大幅度削减
- prune away修剪,删去
- prune down〔off〕剪掉
经典引文
If a man doesn't like a girl's looks..she's a..prune.
出自：Women SpeakingMarston's textsjudiciously pruned..without Webster's additions.
出自：Times Literary Supplement
- trim修剪
- clip夹住
- snip剪
- cut back削减
- cut切
- crop农作物
- lop剪去(树枝)
- thin薄的
- shorten弄短
- reduce减少
- abridge删节
- tighten up绷紧
- condense浓缩
- curtail缩减
- abbreviate缩写
- rationalize使合理化
- rationalise 合理化
- dress服装
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