To nip something in the bud.

把某事杀于萌芽。

That scientific tether was strangling the scene.

科学的杀了场景。

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

我不是想杀你的情绪。

The rolling power cuts are strangling the economy.

轮流停电正在杀经济。

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

他们说短信的出现杀了逗号、冒号和省略号。

This limits what people are willing to share.

这会杀人们分享的念头。

I would nip that back talk in the bud.

我会把其杀在萌芽状态。

To hoard it is to strangle it.

而囤积时间，就是杀时间。

Today I want to nip it in the bud.

今天，我想把它杀在萌芽状态。

They want to kill the baby growing inside of her.

他们想杀她体内生长的婴儿。

Why did you kill that part of yourself?

你为什么要杀掉这种天性？

None wanted to throttle companies in their own backyard.

因为没人想要杀本地企业的发展。

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

致命的厄运有时断了他们的头颈，但从不曾杀他们的勇气。

All of that together is now really choking off the economy.

所有这些加在一起杀了经济发展。

Jobs believed this conventional management stifled innovation.

乔布斯认为这种传统的管理方式杀了创新。

Hothead brother was murdered by the husband you smothered.

丈夫弄死了，头脑发热的哥哥又被你杀。

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

无论如何，我们要杀所有的希望。

The company is accused of stamping out competition in digital advertising.

该公司被指控在数字广告领域杀竞争。

So we killed this project, too.

所以我们也杀了这个项目。

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杀创新。