hemming [
'hemiŋ]
[机]卷边
- I have to machine the hem.
我需用缝纫机缝边. - The enemy troops were hemming us in.
敌军把我们包围了.
Hem \Hem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hemmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hemming}.]
1. To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge
of. --Wordsworth.
2. To border; to edge
All the skirt about
Was hemmed with golden fringe. --Spenser.
{To hem about}, {To hem around}, or {To hem in}, to inclose
and confine; to surround; to environ. ``With valiant
squadrons round about to hem.'' --Fairfax. ``Hemmed in to
be a spoil to tyranny.'' --Daniel.
{To hem out}, to shut out. ``You can not hem me out of
London.'' --J. Webster.
- Now and then the effect is evocative, but more often it subsides into the prose of alternative greeting cards: "We are caught in the incomplete and hemming web called life, trying to weave a geometric sense above a void."
- After years of hemming and hawing, it finally plans to begin selling conventional film, for example.