| 单词 | to make it up to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make it up to e. transitive. colloquial. to make it up to: to compensate or atone to (a person) for a loss or wrong suffered (esp. one of which the subject is the cause). Cf. sense 13b. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)] > make atonement to (a person) to make one's gree to or withc1290 answera1400 satisfy1437 content1548 to make it up to1860 1860 W. Collins Woman in White in All Year Round 24 Mar. 503/1 I must make it up to you for having been afraid to speak out at a better time. 1879 H. James Confidence II. xx. 13 He had wronged her... As he could not make it up to her, the only reasonable thing was to keep out of her way. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark vi. iii. 405 My own father died in Nebraska when Gunner was born..and I was sorry, but the baby made it up to me. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xii. 188 You're a good girl... Make it up to you some time. 1973 A. MacVicar Painted Doll Affair xi. 130 I persuaded myself that it was justified. Tomorrow I would make it up to him. 1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 16 Rab: Jaffa cakes on a Wednesday, Mary..Pure decadence. Mary: I had to lash oot on them, din't I? to make it up to the wean! < as lemmas |
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