sew

1 “What if something happens to your tail? Who will sew it back?”

2 The bedroom curtains were made of raw silk, and she told Aunty Uju, ‘Ahn-ahn, it’s a waste to use this material as a curtain! Let’s sew a dress with it.”

3 You don't even have to sew.

你甚至不需要缝衣服。

4 Then I put a towel over Bertha’s sewing machine and hung my backpack on the hook on the closet door.

5 And in his work, there was a relationship between effort and reward: the longer he and Regina stayed up at night sewing aprons, the more money they made the next day on the streets.

6 He spent two hours sewing up the rip with fishing line.

7 Abuela sewed white towels together so he could wrap himself around his middle.

8 The forty or so girls crowded into the small room looked almost like a sewing circle, so many of the girls were doing mending or needlework.

9 Mom went out on the porch, staying there sewing and reading magazines with Daisy Mae on her lap, Dandy at her feet, and Chipper on her shoulder until Dad returned, near midnight.

10 Her mother asked if she wanted to join the sewing class at church, to keep her occupied, and her father said that this, the unending university strike, was why young people became armed robbers.

11 During his first year in the factory, he proved it to himself and to his coworkers in a confrontation with another sewing machine repairman.

12 One by one, they dropped into a tin can with a dull plink, and the surgeon then began sewing up the wound.

13 “She can sew, though,” I heard my mother say, “and sweep.”

14 Finish him off with straight and curving sewing needles?

15 So far in Mrs. Collins’s class, we’ve learned about the different components that make a sewing machine work and how to use it.

16 Instead she was sent to sewing classes, so she could become a “true woman” and not suffer when she got married.

17 She died when my dad was sixteen, but in that relatively short amount of time she taught him to cook, sew, iron, and make his bed.

18 Already the mourning bands had been sewn around the arms of two gray suits, and now he was on the last.

19 But I think I can sew something like it.

不过我可以自己做一件这样的。

20 It took a couple of trips, but she ended up bringing out the sewing machine, most of the tools from her first class, a square template, and an iron.

1 缝纫

sewing embroidery stitching needle needlework suture stitch needle craft sartorial steek stitchwork

2 缝合

seam suture stitch close sutural commissural symphysis oversew stitch together overcast quilt stitch up sew up prick

3 缝制

work tailor stitch make up sewing

4 缝入

in-wrought tucked

5 缝补

stitch clout darning patch darn mend sew up sewing mending stitch up work

6 做针线活

work

7 装订

bdg. getup

8 缝

line opening crack slot seam raphe stitch quilt sewing tailor sutural suture steek stitching gather