hem

裾、縁の折り返し

衣服や布の端を折り返し、きれいに縫い留めた部分。

やさしい英語で： The edge of a piece of clothing or cloth, folded over and sewn to keep it neat.

• The hem is coming loose.
• She shortened the skirt by raising the hem.
• I caught my heel in the hem of my dress.

よく使う表現： skirt hem, sew a hem, turn up a hem, uneven hem

取り囲む、閉じ込める

人や物を囲んで、動きや自由を制限する。

やさしい英語で： To surround someone or something so closely that movement or freedom is limited.

• Tall walls hem us in.
• The soldiers were hemmed in on all sides.
• She felt hemmed in by rules and expectations.

使い方： hem someone/something in (The crowd hemmed us in.); be hemmed in by something (The village is hemmed in by mountains.)

類義語： surround, confine, enclose, hem in

よく使う表現： hem someone in, hem something in, hem someone about