Branches that may look dead may not really be dead, so you will be able to tell during the spring before you start pruning avocado trees.

那些看起来已经坏死的枝条可能并没有真正死掉，这样在春季修剪时，你就能够判断该修剪哪些枝条了。

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She fell back to Earth, but the steel-spring bustle just bounced her back up as high as before.

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I tie a spring to my back and I anchor it to the wall and see how much the spring stretches before the two forces balance.

我把弹簧一端系在背后,另一端固定在墙上,观察两个力平衡时弹簧的伸长量

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Generally,the best time to prune is in late winter, before spring growth starts.

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The best guess now is that it will grow slightly in the last quarter, then stagnate or even fall slightly in the spring, before gathering some steam in the second half of the year.

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