make-up

The ideological make-up of the unions is now radically different from what it had been.

协会的思想观念与过去截然不同。

a person's genetic make-up

一个人的遗传性格

She never wears make-up .

她从来不化妆。

A conservatory would make up for the fact that we were refused planning permission for a roof terrace.

我们建屋顶平台的计划被驳回了，要是能盖一间温室也算一种补偿。

Leave this notice hanging on your door, asking the servant to make up your room.

留张便条挂在你房门上, 请服务员把你的房间整理一下.

His parents are trying to make up to him for the restrictions of urban living.

他的父母正试图弥补他在城市生活的局限。

(technical 术语)the page make-up of a text (= the way in which the words and pictures are arranged on a page)

文本的版面设计

Jealousy is not part of his make-up.

嫉妒不是他的本质。

It didn't take her long to make up.

她很快就化妆好了.

She can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.

她无法作出决定究竟嫁给众多求婚者中的哪一位.

He just couldn't make up his mind either way.

他左想也不是,右想也不是.

the make-up of a TV audience

电视观众的构成

a make-up artist (= a person whose job is to put make-up on the faces of actors and models)

化妆师

The teacher helped his pupils make up the lessons they had missed.

教师给学生补课.

Pride has always been an important part of his make-up.

自尊心一直是他的一个重要性格特点。

She couldn't make up her mind whether to go or not.

她又想去,又不想去,拿不定主意.

There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.

他的性格有致命的缺陷，随着时间的推移，他陷入了久久的沉默，或者变得漠然。

I don't usually wear much make-up.

我一般不化浓妆。

The way Charles tried to make up to the boss was distasteful to the workers.

工人们很看不惯查尔斯想巴结老板的那种样子.

Vitamin pills make up what you lack in your diet.

维生素丸可补充你食物中所缺乏的营养.

At the moment of indecision, we helped them make up their minds.

正在进退两难的当口, 我们帮他们下了决心.

Make up your mind, you can't have it both ways.

你决定吧，反正鱼与熊掌不可兼得。

She checked her makeup one last time, and then walked out with a spring in her step.

她最后检查了一下妆容，然后步履轻盈地走了出去。

It's only been latterly that we've discovered that it's lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make up the Great Barrier Reef.

直到近来我们才发现,它们其实是众多独立的礁石, 大约有2900个独立的礁石系,组成了大堡礁.

He occasionally singled me out for a display of favor.

他有时把我抬出来夸奖一番以示恩宠.

For God's sake stop dithering and make up your mind!

看在上帝面上,别再犹豫了,快拿定主意吧!

eye make-up

眼妆

Normally she wore little make-up...

她一般不怎么化妆。

to put on your make-up

上妆

...the chemical make-up of the oceans and atmosphere.

海洋与大气的化学构造