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hem n.褶边vt.缝边；包围；约束 (1) 她裙子上的褶边需要缝一缝。(2) 她的礼服的褶边弄脏了。(3) 你能帮我给裙子缝边吗？(4) 敌军把我们包围了。(5) 他感到受清规戒律的束缚。 Most of your clothes have at least one hem in them — at the ends of your sleeves, the bottom of your skirt, or along the edge of your t-shirt. When a person sews a hem, whether he's making a dress or a pair of curtains, he folds a very small amount of fabric under two or three times and stitches along the edge in a straight line. In Old English, the word hem means "a border."

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英 [hem] 美 [hem] (1) The hem on her skirt needs sewing.(2) The hem of her dress was stained.(3) Can you help me to hem the skirt?(4) The enemy troops were hemming us in.(5) He felt hemmed in by convention. When kids grow taller, their parents sometimes have to let out the hem in their pants so they'll be long enough. The hem is the very bottom, folded edge of a piece of clothing. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（衣物等的）褶边，卷边；（裙子的）下摆 A hem on something such as a piece of clothing is an edge that is folded over and stitched down to prevent threads coming loose. The hem of a skirt or dress is the bottom edge. 2[VERB 动词]缝…的褶边；给…镶边 If you hem something, you form a hem along its edge.   [V n]Turn under and hem the outer edges...翻下来缝外侧的边。Each dress is hemmed and scrupulously checked for imperfections.每条连衣裙都缝上了褶边，并经过严格的检查，不允许有任何瑕疵。3  hem and haw→see: haw； 相关词组：hem in

英语单词	hem
英美音标	英 [hem] 美 [hem]
中文释义	n.褶边 vt.缝边；包围；约束
英语例句	(1) The hem on her skirt needs sewing. (2) The hem of her dress was stained. (3) Can you help me to hem the skirt? (4) The enemy troops were hemming us in. (5) He felt hemmed in by convention.
中文例句	(1) 她裙子上的褶边需要缝一缝。 (2) 她的礼服的褶边弄脏了。 (3) 你能帮我给裙子缝边吗？ (4) 敌军把我们包围了。 (5) 他感到受清规戒律的束缚。
vocabulary简明	When kids grow taller, their parents sometimes have to let out the hem in their pants so they'll be long enough. The hem is the very bottom, folded edge of a piece of clothing.
vocabulary扩展	Most of your clothes have at least one hem in them — at the ends of your sleeves, the bottom of your skirt, or along the edge of your t-shirt. When a person sews a hem, whether he's making a dress or a pair of curtains, he folds a very small amount of fabric under two or three times and stitches along the edge in a straight line. In Old English, the word hem means "a border."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（衣物等的）褶边，卷边；（裙子的）下摆 A hem on something such as a piece of clothing is an edge that is folded over and stitched down to prevent threads coming loose. The hem of a skirt or dress is the bottom edge. 2 [VERB 动词]缝…的褶边；给…镶边 If you hem something, you form a hem along its edge. [V n] Turn under and hem the outer edges... 翻下来缝外侧的边。 Each dress is hemmed and scrupulously checked for imperfections. 每条连衣裙都缝上了褶边，并经过严格的检查，不允许有任何瑕疵。 3 hem and haw→see: haw ；相关词组： hem in

Hem Dress Edge Skirt Folded Piece Bottom 英