When button a button you slip it into a buttonhole. A buttonhole traps the button.

当扣扣子的时候，你把扣子扣到扣子眼里。扣眼就锁住了扣子。

Jen had me buttonholed for an hour about her work project.

珍硬让我听她唠叨了一个小时她的工作项目。

He was wearing a flower that resembled an oversized artichoke in his buttonhole.

他衣服的扣眼里插着一枝鲜花，活像一朵特别大的洋蓟。

The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.

扣和扣眼是伟大的。

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

扣更为重要的是扣眼。

For a button on our clothing to work, it needs a buttonhole.

要使我们衣服上的扣起作用，它需要扣眼。

So, if you buttonhole someone in a conversation, you trap them.

因此，如果你在对话中“buttonhole”某人，意思是你拦住了某人。

Two of them tried to buttonhole me into a political conversation. But I avoided getting involved.

其中两个人试图把我拉入一个政治交谈中。但是我避开了。

Like a button that has slipped into a buttonhole, they cannot escape.

就像滑进扣眼里的扣一样，他们无法逃脱。

She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings.

她自己梳头，我也正在教她开洞，补她自己的袜子。

Each woman is specialized in one operation, like sweing cuffs or puttiing buttonholes on a fancy cocktail dress.

每个女工都专于某一操作，如缝纫袖口或在华丽礼服上打上扣眼。

Good for you. I got buttonholed with a few people for an hour.

走得对。我被几个人拉住说了一个小时。

Now, you can buttonhole someone with a fun topic.

你可以用一个有趣的话题来吸引某人。

So, to buttonhole someone means you have trapped them in a spoken conversation.

所以，" to buttonhole someone" 意思是你在一场谈话中被困住了。

If you are buttonholed over an unpleasant topic, you can also say that someone had you cornered.

如果你被一个令人不快的话题困住了，你也可以说某人把你逼入绝境。

My mother put a little bunch of flowers into Garrone's buttonhole, for him to carry to his mother in her name.

母亲把小花束插入卡隆的孔中，说：“给我带去送给你的母亲！”

" Here is a buttonhole for you; let me put it in your coat" .

“这是给你的扣眼；让我把它放在你的外套里”。

Half the time I can't even work the buttonholes.

有一半时间我什至无法操作扣孔。

And strangers who followed him about the streets and buttonholed him for unexplainable reasons.

还有陌生人在街上跟着他， 出于无法解释的原因扣住他。

On a jacket each button fits in a buttonhole.

• 在一件夹克上, 每个扣子都适合扣在一个扣眼里。