Nipped

例句/造句/用法:

• When it was done, he laid it aside and a dog walked sadly in and nipped it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• He had nipped in the bud the possible meeting between Eustacia and her old lover this very night. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I've just heard of old Mrs. Mingott's stroke; and as I was on my way to the house I saw you turning down this street and nipped after you. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.

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