make up to

英 [meɪk ʌp tu]

美 [meɪk ʌp tu]

（尤指因自己的过失）补偿

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （尤指）因自己的过失向…弥补，补偿
  If you say that you willmake it up tosomeone, you are promising that you will do something good for them after they have been upset or disappointed, especially by you.
  1. I'll make it up to you, I promise...
     我保证，我会补偿你的。
  2. I must make it up to him for the awful intrusion of last night.
     因为昨晚过分的打扰，我必须对他有所补偿。

双语例句

• Coptic Christian and other make up to 6%.
  科普特和其它基督徒占6%。
• It's the kind of sentiment when you don't stick to the facts, but try to make up something, to mislead people away from a true discussion.
  这种感觉就像是人们不坚持事实，而是试图去凭空编造些东西，去误导人们，使人们不能进行真正的讨论。
• Bob tried to make up to the boss as soon as he began to work at the office.
  鲍勃一开始在办公室工作，就试图讨好老板。
• It is unjust that van Gogh received so little financial reward or public recognition in his short lifetime, but we cannot make it up to him now.
  梵高（vanGogh）在他短暂的一生中获得的金钱回报或公众认可少之又少，这的确不公平，但我们今天是没有办法补偿他的。
• It depends on where the sale is taking place, but in terms of bidders and buyers, Asian buyers can now make up a third to a quarter of our watch sales.
  这取决于拍卖会在哪个地方举行，但是从竞拍者和购买者的角度看，亚洲买家现在占我们钟表销售的1/4至1/3。
• It is estimated that oil imports make up to thirty percent of national income in some parts of the Pacific.
  据估计，在太平洋地区的某些国家石油进口高达全国收入的30%。
• His parents are trying to make up to him for the restrictions of urban living
  他的父母正试图弥补他在城市生活的局限。
• We should make up our minds to the facts.
  我们应当肯定这些事实。
• Be on the level with sb: Don't make up a lie to deceive us.
  对某人说实话，没有骗谁不要编造谎话来骗我们。
• Anyway, I think it may very well be all the beautiful differences among us that just might give us the tiniest glimmer of a chance of saving my nephew and letting me make it up to you for getting us into this crazy whatever-it-is.
  总之，鄙人以为，正是我们中间这些美好的与众不同，使得拯救我侄子的计划有了一线生机，也能借此机会为我把大家拖到这摊子浑水中做一点补偿。