To nip something in the bud.

把某事扼杀于萌芽。

I don't mean... I didn't mean to stifle you.

我不是想扼杀你的情绪。

The rolling power cuts are strangling the economy.

轮流停电正在扼杀经济。

They say that the emergence of text messaging is killing off commas, colons and apostrophes.

他们说短信的出现扼杀了逗号、冒号和省略号。

This limits what people are willing to share.

这会扼杀人们分享的念头。

That scientific tether was strangling the scene.

科学的束缚扼杀了场景。

It's time to nip your tardiness in the bud.

将迟到拖拉扼杀于摇篮。

I would nip that back talk in the bud.

我会把其扼杀在萌芽状态。

Today I want to nip it in the bud.

今天，我想把它扼杀在萌芽状态。

None wanted to throttle companies in their own backyard.

因为没人想要扼杀本地企业的发展。

They say more regulations on AI programming will only stifle innovation.

他们表示，对人工智能编程的过多监管只会扼杀创新。

Social media doesn't reduce productivity nearly as much as it kills employee retention.

社交媒体不会像扼杀员工保留率那样降低生产力。

Jobs believed this conventional management stifled innovation.

乔布斯认为这种传统的管理方式扼杀了创新。

Hothead brother was murdered by the husband you smothered.

丈夫弄死了，头脑发热的哥哥又被你扼杀。

We need above all else to kill hope. But instead, too often, we just waffle.

无论如何，我们要扼杀所有的希望。

Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.

致命的厄运有时期断了他们的头颈，但从不曾扼杀他们的勇气。

So we killed this project, too.

所以我们也扼杀了这个项目。

The scandal will hurt Mr Mas, but it does not sink separatism.

这一绯闻确实会影响Mas，但却不会扼杀独立主义。

To be a warrior, you must kill your tears.

要成为一名战士，你必须扼杀你的眼泪。

But we humans have also been squeezing life out of the sea.

问题是，我们人类一直在扼杀海洋的生命。