make it up to

基本解釋

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，“別人就會利用這點(diǎn)，迫使你改變主意或者在下次幫他們做事以示補(bǔ)償。
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.
有些家長發(fā)現(xiàn)他們現(xiàn)在和孩子在一起的時間，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)少于當(dāng)年自己的父母陪伴他們的時間，因此想用物質(zhì) “好好補(bǔ)償”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適的美軍基地，鳩山先生也許只能違背自己的諾言了，他需要對沖繩人做出補(bǔ)償。

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?
我會上天堂嗎？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
Latte, which is a homogeneous system, has a very, very large number of components to it All the components that make up the milk.
拿鐵咖啡是個均勻系統(tǒng)，但它有非常非常多的組分,牛奶中的所有組分咖啡中的所有組分。
麻省理工公開課 - 熱力學(xué)與動力學(xué)課程節(jié)選

He had tried to make it up to her, and was glad now that he had.
NEWYORKER: Faith