编造故事、借口或谎言,尤其是为了骗别人。
"He made up an elaborate story about why he was late."
I didn't make it up. Everything I told you is true.
— Gone Girl, dir. David Fincher, 2014
编造故事或借口;吵架后和好;构成整体;或化妆。
编造不真实的东西;和某人停止争吵并和好;构成总数;化妆。
共 4 个含义,从最常见到最少见,按 CEFR 等级色彩标注。
编造故事、借口或谎言,尤其是为了骗别人。
"He made up an elaborate story about why he was late."
I didn't make it up. Everything I told you is true.
— Gone Girl, dir. David Fincher, 2014
解决争吵,恢复友好关系。
"After their argument, the siblings made up and hugged each other."
构成某个整体或某个百分比。
"Women make up more than half of the university's student population."
Immigrants make up a large share of the essential workforce.
— The New York Times, April 2020
往脸上化妆。
"She made herself up carefully before the job interview."
这是一个非常高频、义项很多的短语动词。表示“构成”的意思常用于被动或统计表达中(如 women make up 50% of the workforce)。表示化妆的意思中,make-up 也可作名词。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "make up" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
可互换使用的词组 — 点击已链接的可进一步了解。
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