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。

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

。我被几个人拉住说了一个小时。

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.

纽扣和扣眼是伟大的发明。

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

就像滑进扣眼里的纽扣一样，他们无法逃脱。

Okay, the scary one who'll buttonhole you in the pub and bang on and on about George Eliot and Charles Dickens, and you'll be backing off from the awful pong.

好，酒那个令人不安的家伙强留你进行谈话，他滔滔不绝的赞美乔治·艾略特和查尔斯·狄更斯，中散发出的恶臭令你退避三舍。

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纽孔中，说：“给我带去送给你的母亲！”

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，如缝纫袖华丽礼服上打上扣眼。

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

比纽扣更为重要的是扣眼。

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

要使我们衣服上的纽扣起作用，它需要扣眼。

" I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir, " was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole.

“我会尽力来满足你的，先生，”这是劳里不同寻常的恭敬回答，他正小心翼翼地把乔插他纽孔里的花儿取下来。

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。

Now, let's say you find yourself buttonholed in a conversation at a party. The person just keeps talking and talking and talking!

现，假设一个聚会的交谈中，你发现你说不上话。那个人一直说，一直说，一直说！

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

所以，" to buttonhole someone" 意思是你一场谈话中被困住了。

Good. Not caring is the best way to deal with a button-pusher. Uh-oh. Look over there. Now she's got David buttonholed.

很好。付惹怒别人的人的最佳方式是不乎。啊哦。看那边。现她拦住了大卫。

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

她自己梳头，我也正教她开纽洞，补她自己的袜子。

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。

I haven't had anything to eat or drink yet! Jen had me buttonholed for an hour about her work project.

我还没吃东西呢！珍拦住我跟我说了一个小时她的工作项目。

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

因此，如果你话中“buttonhole”某人，意思是你拦住了某人。