She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him.

她先前待他不好，这时候想弥补一下。

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After all the delays, we were anxious to make up for lost time.

耽搁了这么久，我们急着想弥补失去的时间。

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Mrs. Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday.

哈迪太太赶紧问她的客人假期过得如何，以弥补此前不得体的言行。

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He says they might be trying to increase their dopamine levels to make up for the deficits in their reward system.

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We're going to release a lot of energy for bonding, it's going to more than make up for the fact that we actually had to spend some energy to promote that electron.

在成键时，会释放大量能量,这比补偿激发电子,的能量要多。

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I'm going to actually get caught up, make up for but Bawendi's slow lecturing.

我得抓紧了，补上Bawendi上次没讲的内容。

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To make up for the nearly unbearable smell, the fibrous, powdery tanfruit has an addicting sweet taste inside.

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To make up for this shortfall, America needs to have its entrepreneurs and home businesses succeed.

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How else could you possibly make up for all the headaches and accounting bills?

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