make out

柯林斯詞典

make out (making,made,makes)

• 1. PHRASAL VERB If you make something out, you manage with difficulty to see or hear it. (費力地) 看出; 聽出

  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth. 我衹能看出一個高高的、蒼白的、朦朧的人影穿行在矮灌木叢中。

  She thought she heard a name. She couldn't make it out, though. 她以爲(wèi)自己聽到了一個名字，但聽不清楚。

• 2. PHRASAL VERB If you try to make something out, you try to understand it or decide whether or not it is true. 理解; 辨清

  I couldn't make it out at all. 我完全不能明白它。

  It is hard to make out what criteria are used. 難以辨清使用了什麼標(biāo)準。

• 3. PHRASAL VERB If you make out that something is the case or make something out to be the case, you try to cause people to believe that it is the case. 証明; 竭力說

  They were trying to make out that I'd actually done it. 他們在試圖証明我確實做了那件事。

  I don't think it was as glorious as everybody made it out to be. 我認爲(wèi)這不像大家說的那樣了不起。

• 4. PHRASAL VERB When you make out a cheque, receipt, or order form, you write all the necessary information on it. 填寫完

  I'll make the cheque out to you and put it in the post this afternoon. 我會給你寫一張支票竝於今天下午郵寄給你。

• 5. PHRASAL VERB If two people are making out, they are engaged in sexual activity. 性交[美國英語] [非正式]

  ...pictures of the couple making out on the beach. …那對夫婦在海灘做愛的照片。

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