| 词汇 | make-up-for |
| 释义 | make up for somethingphrasal verb with makeverbuk /meɪk/ us /meɪk/made | made B2 to take the place of something lost or damaged or to compensate for something bad with something good: 补偿，弥补 No amount of money can make up for the death of a child.无论多少钱都无法补偿孩子的死亡。 This year's good harvest will make up for last year's bad one.今年的丰收将弥补去年的歉收。 [ + -ing verb ]He bought me dinner to make up for being so late the day before.他请我吃晚饭，作为对前一天迟到的补偿。 She gave him a bottle of wine to make up for missing his birthday. I worked extra hours to make up for the time I had missed. You need to do something to make up for your rudeness. How can I ever make up for the pain I caused them? I'm taking extra lessons to make up for the time I missed. Replacing and exchanging alternate alternatively bargain something away behalf change over compensation instead of lieu name novate part exchange shoe sing someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom spare substitutability substitutable substitution substitutive succeed make up for something | American Dictionarymake up for somethingphrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/ to use as a replacement for something missing, lost, or lacking: What he lacks in size, Hayes makes up for in toughness on the basketball court. Some of these horses have cost me a lot of money, but other ones have made up for it. For all the skiers yet to make a trip to the mountains this winter, this is the perfect opportunity to make up for lost time (= do what you did not have an opportunity to do earlier). |
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