The colonel is hemmed in. His rule has undoubtedly ended.

卡扎菲已经被包围了，他的统 治毫无疑问已经终结。

Well, for starters, your life is hemmed in by ancient, pointless rules.

首先，整个人生都被腐朽、无意义的教义限制住了。

Uh, they don't like being hemmed in by rules or convention and, and they often look at problems from a different angle.

他们不喜欢被规则或惯例束缚，经常从不同的角度看待问题。

Within eleven days after he had taken command, General Hood had lost almost as many men as Johnston had lost in seventy-four days of battle and retreat, and Atlanta was hemmed in on three sides.

胡德将军在就任总指挥以来的１１天里所损失的兵员，已接近于约翰斯顿在战斗和退却的七十四天的所损失的数目，而且亚特兰大已沦于三面受敌，岌岌可危的困境。

Sustained by their own labor, possessing the interior to which their armies could readily retreat, supplied mainly from native resources, the Americans could not be hemmed in, penned up, and destroyed at one fell blow.

靠自己的劳动维持生计， 拥有军队可以随时撤退的内陆地区，主要由本土资源供应， 美国人不可能被包围、围困和一击摧毁。