He chopped a branch off the tree.

他从那棵树上砍下一根树枝。

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We sawed the dead branches off the tree.

我们锯掉了树上的枯枝。

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He pruned the longer branches off the tree.

他把较长的树枝剪掉了。

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That could be good advice. If you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is cut off will fall into your eye.

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And one year, I just took all the gum, virtually every single gum off the tree just to see what happened.

NPR: Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down

"There are bits blowing off the tree and there is a large split up the middle, there's a lot more cultivation in the field now and the plough could have damaged the roots, " he said.

BBC: Man down! Rihanna tree is dying according to farmer

Surely there were better songs thrown off "The Joshua Tree" (1987) than this clunker.

CNN: Entertainment - U2's latest a muddle of music both memorable, middling