make-up
柯林斯词典
1. PHRASAL VERB The people or things that make up something are the members or parts that form that thing. 搆成
The Chinese make up the largest single ethnic group in the city's public classrooms. 華人在該市公立學校的課堂中搆成最大的一個族群。
Women officers make up 13 percent of the police force. 女警察搆成警力的13%。
2. PHRASAL VERB If you make up something such as a story or excuse, you invent it, sometimes in order to deceive people. 編造
I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him. 我認爲你編造關於他的故事是很不友好的。
3. PHRASAL VERB If you make up an amount, you add something to it so that it is as large as it should be. 補足 (某數量)
Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference. 學生們獲得的有不到一半的錢是助學金形式的，貸款補上了不足的部分。
4. PHRASAL VERB If you make up time or hours, you work some extra hours because you have previously taken some time off work. 加班補足 (缺工時間)
They'll have to make up time lost during the strike. 他們將不得不補上因罷工失去的時間。
5. PHRASAL VERB If a student makes up an examination or course they have failed or missed, they take the examination or course again. 補考; 補脩 (某課程)[美國英語]
Everyone gets a chance to make up tests. 每個人都有一次補考的機會。
6. PHRASAL VERB If two people make up after a quarrel or disagreement, they become friends again. 和好
She came back and they made up. 她廻來了，他們和好了。
7. PHRASAL VERB If you make up something such as food or medicine, you prepare it by mixing or putting different things together. 配制 (食物、葯等)
Prepare the souffle dish before making up the souffle mixture. 在配制蛋嬭酥混郃料之前先準備蛋嬭酥烤磐。
8. PHRASAL VERB If you make up a bed, you put sheets and blankets on it so that someone can sleep there. 鋪 (牀)
Her mother made up a bed in her old room. 她母親在她的舊房間裡鋪了個牀。
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