prune

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n. 洋李, 李子干, 深紫红色, 傻瓜 vt. 修剪, 砍掉, 删除 vi. 删除, 删节

发音

UK /pɹuːn/
US /pɹun/
AU /pɹʉːn/
/pɹɪu̯n/

词形变化

prunes 复数 prunes prunes 三单 pruning 现在分词 pruned 过去式 pruned 过去分词

别名

pruan pruine proin

教材释义与例句

名词

深紫红色;傻瓜;李子干

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plum.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.

    李子干

    西梅干

    干梅子

    梅干

  3. 3.

    Something wrinkly like a prune.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

    俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.

    非正式 不及物
  2. 1.

    To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.

    及物 植物学 商务

    A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.

  3. 2.

    To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).

    比喻 及物

    to prune a budget, or an essay

  4. 3.

    To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.

    及物
  5. 4.

    To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.

    及物
  6. 5.

    To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  7. 6.

    To trim the feathers with the beak.

    废旧 体育
  8. 7.

    To preen; to prepare; to dress.

    废旧

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词源

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.

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