make up for

美 [meɪk ʌp fɔːr]英 [meɪk ʌp fɔː(r)]
  • 弥补,补偿(令人不快的遭遇或损失)
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make up for

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    PHRASAL VERB 弥补;补足
    To make up for a bad experience or the loss of something means to make the situation better or make the person involved happier.

    Ask for an extra compensation payment to make up for the stress you have been caused...

    为补偿你为此承受的压力,你要申请额外的补偿金。

  1. She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him .

    她先前待他不好,这时候想弥补一下。

  2. He had invented an imaginary son , in order to make up for his real son 's failings .

    为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处,他就想象出了一个儿子。

  3. Ask for an extra compensation payment to make up for the stress you have been caused

    为补偿你为此承受的压力,你要申请额外的补偿金。

  4. The semi-finalists had to play twice in the day to make up for time lost to bad weather .

    为了补回恶劣天气耽误的时间,半决赛选手不得不一日双赛。

  5. A conservatory would make up for the fact that we were refused planning permission for a roof terrace

    我们建屋顶平台的计划被驳回了,要是能盖一间温室也算一种补偿。

  6. Five years older than the majority of officers of his same rank , he was determined to make up for lost time .

    他比同一级别的大多数军官年长5岁,因此他决心积极努力来弥补过去损失的时间。

  7. Mrs Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday

    哈迪夫人赶紧问客人假期过得怎么样,替自己的言不得体打圆场。

  8. Hard work can often make up for a lack of ability .

    努力工作常可弥补能力的不足。

  9. Her beauty can 't make up for her stupidity .

    她的美丽不能弥补她的愚蠢。

  10. Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor ( . ) , disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers .

    这些因素足以弥补这些移民在成为城市居民时首先必须忍受的肮脏、疾病和极度贫困。

  11. The weather is terrible , particularly in winter , and there 's no interesting old city to make up for it , as there is in Boston .

    这里天气很糟糕,尤其是在冬天。与波士顿不同,也没有什么有趣的老城区可以弥补这一缺点。

  12. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino , reducing their losses needs to be the priority .

    最贫穷的人最不可能弥补与厄尔尼诺有关的灾害造成的损失,因此减少他们的损失必须是优先事项。

  13. There is a popular Chinese saying that " Fair skin will make up for three flaws " .

    中国有句俗话叫"一白遮三丑"。

  14. The new research indicates that doing enough exercise could make up for some of the unhealthy impacts of bad sleep .

    新的研究表明,做足够的运动可以弥补不良睡眠带来的一些不健康的影响。

  15. For now it 's not clear why more exercise might make up for poor sleep , as far as our health goes .

    从健康角度来看,目前还不清楚为什么更多的运动可以弥补睡眠不足。

  16. Over the next several years were lonely times for Lucy . We often had her at our house for family functions , but it didn 't quite make up for losing a loved one .

    接下来的几年里露西就这样孤孤单单的生活着,我们经常请她过来参加我们的家庭会议,但是这对于失去爱人的她来说是于事无补的。

  17. It 's a pity that many enterprise managers fail to see this and try to seek remedies after wrong decisions have incurred7 great losses , which , they will find , may be too late to make up for .

    可惜大多数的事业经营者均未能认识到这一点,等到错误的决策造成了重大的损失才寻求弥补,有时是亡羊补牢,为时已晚。

  18. The NFL charged fans $ 100 for each cardboard cutout at the game . That 's a cool $ 3 million in revenue to make up for some of the lost ticket and concession sales .

    NFL每个纸板向球迷收取了100美元,使得NFL足足赚到了300万美元的收入,用来弥补损失的门票和特许销售收入。

  19. That doesn 't make up for it at all .

    那一点也没有作用。

  20. I 'll make up for that , too .

    我也会赔偿那些的。

  21. And I still need to make up for them .

    我还需要为此做出弥补。

  22. We can still try to make up for the loss .

    我们还可以努力去弥补损失。

  23. I 'm managing to make up for the lost time .

    我试图补回浪费掉的时间。

  24. We 'll have to speed up to make up for lost time .

    我们必须加快速度弥补失去的时间。

  25. How can I make up for the way I 've treated you ?

    我这样待你,真不知怎样才能向你赔罪。

  26. Make up for the children my parents never had .

    弥补我父母只有一个小孩的遗憾。

  27. Nothing we say can ever make up for their loss .

    我们说什么也不能补偿他们的损失。

  28. Nothing can make up for the loss of a child .

    失去一个孩子是任何东西都无法弥补的。

  29. Your body cannot make up for lost sleep or rest time .

    你的身体不能对失去的睡眠和休息有所补偿。

  30. We should spare no efforts to make up for lost time .

    我们应当不遗余力把失去的时间补回来。