to make up for

弥补、补偿:取代失去或损坏的东西

常用释义

词性释义

弥补、补偿:取代失去或损坏的东西,或用好的东西来弥补坏的东西。
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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。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·After all the delays, we were anxious to make up for lost time.
耽搁了这么久,我们急着想弥补失去的时间。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Mrs. Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday.
哈迪太太赶紧问她的客人假期过得如何,以弥补此前不得体的言行。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·You can make your flights carbon neutral by planting trees to make up for the greenhouse gas emissions.
你可以通过种树抵消温室气体排放,这样你的飞行就可以做到碳中和。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Five years older than the majority of officers of his same rank, he was determined to make up for lost time.
他比同级别的大多数官员大5岁,他决心弥补自己失去的时光。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
6·As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.
因此,人们会吃更多的食物,试图弥补缺失的东西。
7·A lot of teachers spend weeks playing catch up in the fall to make up for the summer drop.
很多老师在秋季学期花几个星期的时间补上暑假落下的功课。
8·To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools.
为了弥补平庸,积极的父母把孩子送到昂贵的补习班。
9·The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.
那里天气很糟糕,尤其是在冬天,而且没有像波士顿内的城区这样有趣的古城区来弥补这一缺陷。
10·Guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to make up for errors and fix relationships.
内疚促使我们更深入地思考我们的美德,进而可以鼓励人们弥补错误和修复关系。
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