"There's lots of dead wood as ought to be cut out," he said.

“有许多枯木要砍。”他说。

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He said, if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

他说，如果你种了菜，可以修剪菜的枝叶，使它看起来像另一种样子，但菜却会死掉。

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Sometimes it seems cut back so much that many people declare it to be already dead.

有时葡萄树看起来被修剪得太厉害，许多人会判定它已经死了。

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Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08