But a bit of pruning is justified.

但些地方的修订是合理的。

That made him hit Ron over the hand with his pruning shears.

赶忙用整枝的剪刀敲了恩的手背。

In the gardening world, cutting back plants is called " pruning" .

在园艺界，修剪植物被称为" 修剪" 。

Way back, probably 30 years ago, the pruning method was burning.

很久以前，大概30年前，修整的方法是焚烧。

" Pruning then results in strong new growth, " she said.

" 修剪会给植物带来新的强劲的增长，" 她说。

Jobs took on the task of pruning the Gravenstein apple trees.

乔布斯和另个公社成员格雷格·卡尔霍恩负责给格拉文施泰因苹果树剪枝。

Pruning is also a way to start new plants.

修剪也是开始种植新植物的种方式。

Cutting off infected branches, or pruning, and spraying chemicals are two ways to deal with blight.

剪掉或修剪被感染的枝条，以及喷洒化学药品是处理枯萎病的两种方法。

" It's different than pruning trees and mowing lawns. You're growing plants, not just maintaining them."

这与修剪树木和草坪不同。你是在种植植物，而不仅仅是维护它们。”

We went home. When Pa asked why we hadn't finished pruning the trees, we told him.

我们也就回家了。当爸爸问我们为什么没有修剪完李子树时，我们把发生的事情告诉了他。

We're pruning, slowly, so we don't scare the market.

我们只是调整政策 不动市场。

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, " I am strong" !

要将犁头打成刀剑，将镰刀打成戈矛。软弱的要说：我有勇力。

After repeated pruning, you end up with a perfect culture of your stem cells, ready to be banked and used at any time.

经过反复修剪后，你得到你自己的完美干细胞培养物，随时可以存入银行并使用。

Such a mountain looks as if someone had given God a new a pruning shears, and forbiddien Him all other exercise.

看到这样的座山，你会感觉是有人给了上帝把剪刀， 让他整天除了剪除树木以外， 什么都不许做。

An important task for revision is to trim all the deadwood, pruning all the redundancies, wordiness, and confusing and misleading ambiguities.

修订的项重要任务是修剪所有的枯木，删去所有的冗余、冗长和令人困惑和误导的歧义。

" How about: 'progress for progress's sake must be discouraged" ? How about: " pruning wherever we find practices that ought to be prohibited'? "

“关‘为进步而进步必须限制’，还有那句‘修改切在实践中发现应当禁止的东西’。”

I think I loved doing yardwork. I loved mowing the grass and pruning the trees and, you know, taking about the trash - anything that was physical I enjoyed.

我想我喜欢整理庭院。我喜欢修剪草坪、修剪树枝，还有倒垃圾，所有体力活我都喜欢。

" What d'you think I've been trying to do, Harry? " she whispered back, her eyes round with anxiety over the top of the quivering Flutterby Bush she was pruning.

“我不是直在帮助你吗，哈利？”赫敏悄声回答。她正在修剪振翅灌木，双眼睛在颤动着的灌木丛上睁得圆圆的，里面满是焦虑。

Let us move forward, then, into a new era of openness, effectiveness and accountability, intent on preserving what ought to be preserved, perfecting what needs to be perfected, and pruning wherever we find practices that ought to be prohibited.

那么，让我们前行，进入个开放、高效、负责的新时代，保留那些应当保留的，完善那些需要完善的，并且修改那些我们在实践当中发现应当禁止的。”