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。

The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.

纽扣和扣眼是伟大的发明。

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个小时。

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

所以，" to buttonhole someone" 意思是你在中被困住了。

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

他衣服的扣眼里插鲜花，活像朵特别大的洋蓟。

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

每个女工都专于某操作，如缝纫袖口或在华丽礼服上打上扣眼。

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个政治交中。但是我避开了。

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

比纽扣更为重要的是扣眼。

Mrs. Florrick buttonholed me in the parking lot.

福瑞克太太在停车扯我闲聊。

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

现在，假设在个聚会的交中，你发现你说不上。那个人直说，直说，直说！

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！”

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.

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