make it up to

基本解释

If you're not, "People will use that to get you to change your mind or make it up to them at another time....
不然，“别人就会利用这点，迫使你改变主意或者在下次帮他们做事以示补偿。
Some parents, realizing they are spending less time with their children than their parents spent with them try to "make it up to kids" with THINGS.
有些家长发现他们现在和孩子在一起的时间，远远少于当年自己的父母陪伴他们的时间，因此想用物质 “好好补偿”孩子。
Unless he can come up with an alternative on the mainland, Mr Hatoyama will have to break his promise to the Okinawans—and make it up to them somehow.
如果不能在日本本土找到合适的美军基地，鸠山先生也许只能违背自己的诺言了，他需要对冲绳人做出补偿。

Hopefully it is not too late for us to wake up to make our earth more healthy and beautiful.
Am I going to make it up to heaven?
我会上天堂吗？
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Latte, which is a homogeneous system, has a very, very large number of components to it All the components that make up the milk.
拿铁咖啡是个均匀系统，但它有非常非常多的组分,牛奶中的所有组分咖啡中的所有组分。
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He had tried to make it up to her, and was glad now that he had.
NEWYORKER: Faith