Pruning, like the name implies, involves removing branches of the classification tree.

修剪正如其名字所指，意思是删减分类树的枝条。

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To manufacture these products, bike frames can literally be grown, with the shape of the stalks manipulated and formed into a variety of styles using a method not unlike that of pruning a bonsai tree.

要生产这样的产品，自行车框架需要慢慢长出来，需要人控制竹竿的生长，使其形成各种形态，而且不像修剪盆景那样。

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But so has every acorn the essentials for making a great oak tree, yet the Japanese show us that even an oak may be stunted by continual pruning of its shoots.

但是日本的说法是，即便橡子也拥有长成参天大树的各种必须条件，但是如果我们不停的对它的新枝进行修剪，它也只能长得十分矮小。

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To abide by it was an assault to her aesthetic sensibilities and her ethic as the go-to-goddess of tree pruning, to say nothing of the gender bias.

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To bring this (money) tree back to health, a severe pruning will be required.

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