make it up

基本解释

The rank is so lofty that many managers never get promoted again, if they even make it up that high.
这个职位是如此之高，以至于很多人如果能够升到这个经理位置，也再不能往上晋升了。
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。
Pakistan have some immensely talented players, but they play in a vacuum; they are having to make it up for themselves as they go along.
巴基斯坦有天赋极佳的队员，但是比赛训练条件却跟不上；他们需要自己为自己创造更好的板球条件。

It's not possible. If you really want to make it up,fine, but it was not possible then, it is not possible now."
Am I going to make it up to heaven?
我会上天堂吗？
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And then we're going to name the atomic orbitals that make it up, and it's being made up of a carbon 2 s p 3 orbital, and a hydrogen 1 s orbital.
然后我们要命名,组成它的原子轨道，它是由碳2sp3轨道，和氢原子1s轨道组成。
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