She wanted to be an actress, but her father soon nipped that idea in the bud. 她想当演员,但她父亲一知道这个想法就阻止住了。
bud budded, budding
[ noun ]
a partially opened flower
<noun.plant>
a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
<noun.plant> [ verb ]
develop buds
<verb.change> The hibiscus is budding!
start to grow or develop
<verb.change> a budding friendship
Bud \Bud\, v. t. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. --Farm. Dict.
Bud \Bud\ (b[u^]d), n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See {Button}.] 1. (Bot.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See {Hydra}.
{Bud moth} (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. {Tmetocera ocellana} and {Eccopsis malana} on the apple tree.
Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Budding}.] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak.
Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
Daniel Adelman, director of clinical allergy and immunology at the University of California at San Francisco, notes that previous attempts to nip allergies in the bud have failed.
"You could go in because you don't like the fact that you drank heavily on a few occasions," she said. "You want to nip it in the bud.
But company officials seem to agree that the human taste bud is in no immediate danger of being replaced by a machine.
Instead, R&D, good design and new investment make the difference. So, nipping wage inflation in the bud is critical.
The inference drawn was that, in spite of five increases in interest rates in the last seven months, the Federal Reserve had failed in its efforts to nip inflation in the bud.
The lesson of the Iran-Contra affair is that unconstitutional legislation must be nipped in the bud, not encouraged with compromise.
But every taste bud has its limits.
"I went for the bad-boy/outlaw types, psychopaths in the bud," Aminta says cheerfully.
They can't bud in the atmosphere of an election."
Daffynition Fast-flowering plants: high bud pressure.
Under his iron-fisted rule, any form of protest or criticism of the leadership or Communist Party was nipped in the bud.
Do not judge it when the heads of flower are still in bud and have a drab buff tone to them.
She also pointed out that much could have been done to nip the totalitarian danger in the bud if the government in those days had enforced laws restricting violence.
"As of this morning, Steve Newman's wanderlust may have been nipped in the bud," he said.
Then, and in earnest, I will begin a crocus-slimming regimen and fill in the empty cormholes with all the species crocuses of slender build and bud that can be had.
Suntory Ltd. said it developed the world's first blue rose bud through a special biotechnology process with Calgene Pacific Pty. of Australia. The new flower was bred by implanting a rose seed with a special enzyme extracted from a petunia.