To prune means to trim or cut away outgrown or weakened parts of a plant.

修剪指的是植物中过度生长或虚弱的部位进行修整或切除。

While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice creams, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flowerbeds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench.

达力吃着冰淇淋，在旁晃来晃去地看着哈利擦窗户，洗汽车，修整草坪，整理花圃，给玫瑰剪枝浇水，重新油漆花园长凳。

While the farmers are busy in the fields, the swallows fly back and forth with material for their nest.

当农户们忙碌在田埂间时，飞燕们则衔着修整巢穴的材料来来往往。

It's a really useful piece of equipment. It's for smoothing rough edges.

这是设备上个很有用的零件。它是用来修整毛边的。

The first soldiers to land at Annapolis had to repair everything as they moved ahead.

在安纳波利斯登陆的第批士兵，前进时必须修整切。

They had closed their restaurant for a month to recover.

他们已将餐厅关闭个月来修整。

It wouldn't be a long job, he thought; a little touch-up would do it.

他想，这工作不会花太长的时间，略微修整就可以了。

This past year was the prune year, so no crop was harvested.

去年是修整的年份，所以没有收获。

And finish this hellhole so I can sell it.

修整好这个鬼地方，我好卖了。

The Picasso Museum housing thousands of works was closed in 2009.

2009年，该博物馆闭馆修整。

They're gonna love you. I heard she's pushing 40 and everything's fake.

他们定会喜欢你。我听说她都快40岁了，全身都修整过。

We had tennis in the past, but the courts failed up to repair since we found that most of our guests weren't interested in the game.

（男）我们以前是有网球场的，但是自从我们发现大部分打网球都不感兴趣之后，就不太注重网球场的修整了。

So if you or anyone you know were ready to leap into spring by maybe freshening up the garden, there might be some worry over how to protect those precious flowers and veggies.

因此，如果您或您认识的准备通过修整花园来迎接春天的话，可能需要担心如何保护这些珍贵的花朵和蔬菜。

Ms. Fenn, a tattoo artist, had so recently repaired the flood damage from Hurricane Matthew that she still had drywall boards lying on her floor when her family was forced to flee Florence's rising waters.

芬恩小姐是名纹身师，最近刚刚修整了她被飓风马修带来的洪水破坏的家，当她的家被迫逃离佛罗伦萨不断上涨的洪水时，她堆在地上的墙板都还没来得及装。

Scarlett knew these hurried preenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had ridden sedately home from a call on a neighbor.

思嘉知道这些修整工夫是为了让自己像个讲究的上等模样去见母亲，假装是拜访邻居以后安安稳稳骑马回来的。

David Heathcote, an architectural historian, predicts that as the best modernist buildings reach an age at which they need restoration, architects will have to forge closer links with salvage firms.

建筑历史学家David Heathcote预计，假以时日，那些最出色的现代主义建筑必将需要修整，届时建筑师们就必须“建筑抢救”公司套近乎了。

It was almost middle night when the noise died away and the animals became quiet. The next day, papa fixed all the broken wood in the walls of the barn.

快到半夜了，噪音消失了，动物们安静下来。第二天，父亲把谷仓墙上所有破碎的木头都修整好。

It doesn't make much sense for the peacekeeping operations which has been decided by the United Nations. So there is indeed a need for and an adjustment to the constitution.

这不太符合联合国发出的维和行动的主旨。所以，日本宪法确实有修整的必要。

In a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that of either of the higher female deities.

光线微暗时，只要将发式稍加修整，她整个的体态便完全可以看作是任何个高贵的女神。

A man had come to the barn to build it, for days he worked until he placed the fork up high out of the way.

有个修整谷仓，他干了好几天，把叉子高高的放在那。