make

1. V-T You can use make with a wide range of nouns to indicate that someone performs an action or says something. For example, if you make a suggestion, you suggest something. 与名词连用，表示做动作或说某事

I'd just like to make a comment. 我只想做一下评论。

I made a few phone calls. 我打了几个电话。

2. V-T You can use make with certain nouns to indicate that someone does something well or badly. For example, if you make a success of something, you do it successfully, and if you make a mess of something, you do it very badly. 与某些名词连用，表示做得好或做得糟

Apparently he made a mess of his audition. 显然他把试演搞得一团糟。

3. V-T/V-I If you make as if to do something or make to do something, you behave in a way that makes it seem that you are just about to do it. 摆出 (要做某事的姿态)[书面]

Mary made as if to protest, then hesitated. 玛丽似乎要抗议，又犹豫了。

4. PHRASE If you make do with something, you use or have it instead of something else that you do not have, although it is not as good. (拿…) 凑合

Why make do with a copy if you can afford the genuine article?

如果你买得起正品，为什么还拿复制品凑合呢？

PHRASE

1. V-T If something makes you do something, it causes you to do it. 致使 (某人做某事)

Dirt from the motorway made him cough. 公路上的灰尘使他咳嗽起来。

The white tips of his shirt collar made him look like a choirboy. 他衬衣的白色领尖使他看起来像个唱诗班男童。

2. V-T If you make someone do something, you force them to do it. 迫使 (某人做某事)

You can't make me do anything. 你不能强迫我做任何事。

3. V-T You use make to talk about causing someone or something to be a particular thing or to have a particular quality. For example, to make someone a star means to cause them to become a star, and to make someone angry means to cause them to become angry. 使 (某人、某事物) 变成…; 使变得…

...James Bond, the role that made him a star. …詹姆斯·邦德，那个使他成为明星的角色。

She made life very difficult for me. 她使我的生活变得很艰难。

4. V-T If you say that one thing or person makes another seem, for example, small, stupid, or good, you mean that they cause them to seem small, stupid, or good in comparison, even though they are not. 使 (某物、某人) 显得…

They live in fantasy worlds which make Disneyland seem uninventive. 他们生活在幻想世界里，那些幻想使迪斯尼乐园也显得毫无创意。

5. V-T If you make yourself understood, heard, or known, you succeed in getting people to understand you, hear you, or know that you are there. 使 (自己被人理解﹑听到﹑知晓等)

He learned enough Spanish to make himself understood. 他学的西班牙语足以让别人明白他。

6. V-T If you make someone something, you appoint them to a particular job, role, or position. 任命 (某人担任某职或角色)

He made her a director in his numerous companies. 他任命她为他数家公司的主管。

7. V-T If you make something into something else, you change it in some way so that it becomes that other thing. 把 (某物) 变成 (另一物)

We made it into a beautiful home. 我们把它变成了一个漂亮的家。

8. V-T To make a total or score a particular amount means to increase it to that amount. 使 (总数、分数) 升为 (某数)

This makes the total cost of the bulb and energy $27. 这使得灯泡和电量的总耗费升为$27。

9. V-T When someone makes a friend or an enemy, someone becomes their friend or their enemy, often because of a particular thing they have done. 结成 (朋友或敌人)

Lorenzo was a natural leader who made friends easily. 洛伦佐是个天生的领导者，结交朋友容易。

10. to make friends→see friend

V-T

1. V-T To make something means to produce, construct, or create it. 制作; 创作

She made her own bread. 她自己做了面包。

Having curtains made professionally can be costly. 找专业人员制作窗帘会很贵。

2. V-T If you make a note or list, you write something down in that form. 写 (笔记、清单等)

Mr. Perry made a note in his book. 佩里先生在他的书里做了批注。

3. V-T If you make rules or laws, you decide what these should be. 制定 (规则、法律等)

The police don't make the laws, they merely enforce them. 警察不制定法律，只是执行法律。

4. V-T If you make money, you get it by working for it, by selling something, or by winning it. 挣; 赚; 赢 (钱)

I think every business's goal is to make money. 我想每笔生意的目的都是赚钱。

5. V-T If you make a case for something, you try to establish or prove that it is the best thing to do. (为某事) 做解释

You could certainly make a case for this point of view. 你当然可以为这种观点做解释。

6. N-COUNT The make of something such as a car or radio is the name of the company that made it. (产品的) 牌子

The only car parked outside is a black Saab – a different make. 停在外面的惟一一辆车是黑色的萨博–一个不同的牌子。

N-COUNT

1. V-LINK You can use make to say that someone or something has the right qualities for a particular task or role. For example, if you say that someone will make a good politician, you mean that they have the right qualities to be a good politician. 成为

She'll make a good actress, if she gets the right training. 如果她得到恰当训练，她会成为一名好演员。

You've a very good idea there. It will make a good book. 你的那个绝妙观点会使之成为一本好书。

2. V-LINK If people make a particular pattern such as a line or a circle, they arrange themselves in this way. 排成 (某图案)

A group of people made a circle around the Pentagon. 一群人绕五角大楼围成了一个圈。

3. V-LINK You can use make to say what two numbers add up to. 是 (用于加法)

Four twos make eight. 4个2是8。

V-LINK

1. V-T If someone makes a particular team or makes a particular high position, they do so well that they are put in that team or get that position. 成为 (某队成员); 得到 (某职位)

The athletes are just happy to make the team. 那些运动员很高兴加入该队。

2. V-T If you make a place in or by a particular time, you get there in or by that time, often with some difficulty. (常指艰难地) 到达 (某地)

The engine is gulping two tons of fuel an hour in order to make New Orleans by nightfall. 引擎每小时消耗两吨燃料以便在天黑之前赶到新奥尔良。

3. PHRASE If you make it somewhere, you succeed in getting there, especially in time to do something. 成功到达 (某地)

So you did make it to America, after all. 这样你终究成功到达了美国。

...the hostages who never made it home. …始终没能回家的人质们。

4. PHRASE If you make it, you are successful in achieving something difficult, or in surviving through a very difficult period. (历经艰难) 获得成功

I believe I have the talent to make it. 我相信我有获得成功的才干。

5. PHRASE If you cannot make it, you are unable to attend an event that you have been invited to. 如约而至

He hadn't been able to make it to our dinner. 他没能如约参加我们的晚宴。

PHRASE

1. V-T You use make it when saying what you calculate or guess an amount to be. 计算; 估计

"How many shots has she got left?"—"I make it two."

“她还剩几颗子弹？”–“我估计是两颗。”

2. V-T You use make it when saying what time your watch says it is. 看表上是 (某时间)

I make it nearly nine o'clock. 我的表上快9:00了。