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The act of cutting off extra, dead, or unwanted branches from a tree, bush, or plant, to help it grow better and look healthier. It's also used a little more loosely for cutting something else down to make it better, like "pruning" a long essay by cutting out the unnecessary parts.
修剪（樹枝）
組成prune (to cut off unwanted branches) + -ing (the -ing form of the verb).
同家族的字
- prunepruning is the -ing form of the verb prune, to cut off extra branches
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pruningnoun詞源 1/ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/
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A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
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Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
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computercomputingengineeringA method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。