"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

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The North had budding oligarchies, just like the South did.

北方有寡头的趋势,南方也一样

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The reader should be a budding author."

读者要是一个潜在的作者“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You can find a whole- you can sort of find a deep and abiding kind of American nationalism still in a lot of these budding Southern patriots, even by the 1850s, especially when they get scared about what secession might actually mean.

你会发现,可以说你会发现一种深层持久的,美国民族主义仍旧根植于许多,南方爱国者们心中,甚至到十九世纪五十年代还是如此,特别是当他们开始害怕,脱离联邦会导致何种不可预料的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And germinal means "The budding," it's a reference to a calendar of the French Revolution.

erminal这个词的意思是发芽

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选