Hem
[hem] or [hɛm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; 'the hem of her dress was stained'; 'let down the hem'; 'he stitched weights into the curtain's hem'; 'it seeped along the hem of his jacket'.
(noun.) the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc..
(verb.) utter `hem' or `ahem'.
(verb.) fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; 'hem my skirt'.
黛博拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(pron.) Them
(interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
(n.) An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
(v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.
(n.) The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.
(n.) Border; edge; margin.
(n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.
(v. t.) To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
(v. t.) To border; to edge
吉尔伯特校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Border, edge, margin.
v. a. Border, edge, skirt.
整理:洛蒂
解釋/意思:
n. and interj. a sort of half-cough to draw attention.—v.i. to utter the sound hem!—pr.p. hem′ming; pa.p. hemmed.
n. the border of a garment doubled down and sewed.—v.t. to form a hem on: to edge:—pr.p. hem′ming; pa.p. hemmed.—n. Hem′-stitch the ornamental finishing of the inner side of a hem made by pulling out several threads adjoining it and drawing together in groups the cross-threads by successive stitches.—v.t. to embroider with such.—Hem in to surround.
哈恩編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The suitor, kissing the hem of the garment again before relinquishing it, replied, Habraham Latharuth, on thuthpithion of plate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He made a little gesture as though he kissed the hem of an imaginary garment worn by the noble youth before him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Captain Martin (highly respected in the army) then unhesitatingly said that it appeared to him that his--hem! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- To be so near him--though he was silent, though he did not touch so much as her scarf-fringe or the white hem of her dress--affected her like a spell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My friend,' said the thin gentleman, with a conciliatory hem--'have you got many people stopping here now? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Little Dorrit gladly put it by her side, took out her little pocket-housewife, threaded the needle, and began to hem. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was no dust, no moisture, to soil the hem of her stainless garment, or to damp her slender sandal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- By the 4th of June Johnston found that he was being hemmed in so rapidly that he drew off and Allatoona was left in our possession. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Some handkerchiefs, all hemmed, said Beth. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- We are hemmed into a corner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I am going up-stairs to take this work to Miss Morgan: she does the open hemming very well. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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