1. 组成;构成
The people or things that make up something are the members or parts that form that thing.
e.g. North Africans make up the largest and poorest immigrant group in the country...
北非人构成了该国最大的、也是最贫困的移民群。
e.g. Women officers make up 13 per cent of the police force...
女警占警力的13%。
2. 编造;虚构
If you make up something such as a story or excuse, you invent it, sometimes in order to deceive people.
e.g. I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him...
我认为你编造他的谣言很不厚道。
e.g. I'm not making it up. The character exists in real life.
我没有凭空捏造,这种人现实生活中确实存在。
3. (给…)化妆;(为…)打扮
If you make yourself up or if someone else makes you up, make-up such as powder or lipstick is put on your face.
e.g. She spent too much time making herself up...
她在化妆上花去了太多时间。
e.g. She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement photographs...
她选择玛吉为她拍订婚照的时候化妆。
4. 凑足;补齐
If you make up an amount, you add something to it so that it is as large as it should be.
make up的翻译
e.g. Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference...
学生领到的钱有不到一半是助学金,差额部分由贷款补足。
e.g. The team had six professionals and made the number up with five amateurs...
该队有6名职业运动员和凑数的5名业余运动员。
5. (加班加点)补足(时间)
If you make up time or hours, you work some extra hours because you have previously taken some time off work.
e.g. They'll have to make up time lost during the strike.
他们不得不加班弥补罢工耽误的时间。
6. 和解;和好
If two people make up or make it up after a quarrel or disagreement, they become friends again.
e.g. She came back and they made up...
她回来之后他们又和好如初。
e.g. They never made up the quarrel...
他们再也没能和解。
7. 配(菜);配(药)
If you make up something such as food or medicine, you prepare it by mixing or putting different things together.
e.g. Prepare the souffle dish before making up the souffle mixture.
在搅拌做蛋奶酥的各种原料之前先要把盘子准备好。
8. 铺(床);搭(铺)
If you make up a bed, you put sheets and blankets on it so that someone can sleep there.
e.g. Her mother made up a bed in her old room.
她母亲在她曾经住过的房间里铺好了一张床。