The escaped prisoner was making for the coast. 越狱犯正向海岸逃去。 make off(intr) 逃跑(指贼等): The boys made off when they saw the policemen. 男孩子们一看见警察,就拔腿跑了。 make out(tr) (a)弄清意义,清楚地理解、看见、听见等: I can’t make out the dress,he has written it so badly.(make the ad…dress out/make it out) 我看不清地址,他写得太潦草了。 Can you hear what the man with the loud…hailer is saying?I can’t makeit out at all. 你听得出那个拿着电喇叭的人在说什么吗?我一点也听不清楚。 I can’t make out why he isn’t here yet. 我搞不明白他为什么还没有到这儿来。 (b)说(可能是瞎说,也可能是夸大其辞): He made out that he was a student looking for a job.We later learnt thatthis wasn’t true at all. 他说他是个在找工作的大学生。后来我们获悉这根本不是事实。 The English climate isn’t so bad as some people like to make out. 英国的天气不像某些人喜欢说的那么糟。 (c)开支票: Customer:Who shall I make it out to? 顾客:我支票抬头怎么写? Shopkeeper:Make it out to Jones and pany. 店主:就写付给琼斯公司好了。 make up one’s mind 下定决心,做出决定,做出决断: In the end he made up his mind to go by train. 最后他决定坐火车去。 make up a quarrel/make it up 终止争吵,言归于好: Isn’t it time you and Ann made up your quarrel?(made it up) 不是到了你和安该言归于好的时候了吗? make up a story/excuse/explanation 捏造,编出一个故事/借口/解释: I don’t believe your story at all.I think you are just making it up. 我根本不信你说的事。我认为你不过是在编造。 make up(tr/intr) 化妆,化装: Most women make up/make up their faces.(make their faces up/makethem up) 妇女大多数都化妆。 Actors have to be made up before they appear on stage. 演员们在出场前必需有人给他们化装。 make up(tr) 调制,配药,制造,由……组成: Take this prescription to the chemist’s.They will make it up for youthere.(make up the prescription/make the prescription up) 把这药方拿到药房。他们会给你配药的。 Notice(in tailor’s window):Customers’own materials made up. (裁缝店橱窗内的)告示:为顾客来料加工。 The audience was made up of very young children. 观众都是很小的孩子们。 make up for(tr) 为……补偿(常以it为宾语): You’ll have to work very hard today to make up for the time you wastedyesterday/to make up for being late yesterday. 为了补偿昨天你们浪费的时间/为了补偿昨天你们迟到一事,今天你们得非常努力地干活。 We aren’t allowed to drink when we are in training but we intend tomake up for it after the race is over. 我们在训练期间不许喝酒,但是我们准备一旦比赛结束就将其补上。 (到那时要多喝些) miss miss out(tr) 省略(参见leave out;它虽与leave out同义,但不如后者常用) mix mix up(tr) 混淆,弄乱: He mixed up the addresses so that no one got the right letters.(mixedthem up) 他把地址都弄乱了,收信人收到的信件都错了。 be/get mixed up with 涉入,与……有牵连(常指同某不光彩的人或事有牵连): I don’t want to get mixed up with any illegal organization. 我不想同什么不合法的组织牵连在一起。 move move in(intr) 搬家到……,搬进,迁入 move on/up(intr) 升迁,升级: Normally in schools pupils move up every year. 在学校里学生正常情况下每年都升级。 move out(intr) 搬出,迁出: I have found a new flat.The present tenant is moving out this weekendand I am moving in on Wednesday. 我找到新的套房了。目前的住户本周末搬出去,我下星期三搬进去。 order order somebody about(宾语位于about前面)给某人下许多命令(而不管其是否方便或愿意),支使: He is a retired admiral and still has the habit of ordering people about. 他是个退休了的海军将军,还留着随意支使人的习惯。 pay pay back(tr),pay someone back(tr/intr) 还给,付还: I must pay back the money that I borrowed.(pay the money back/pay itback) 我必须还清借的钱。 I must pay back Mr Pitt.(pay Mr Pitt back/pay him back) 我必须还皮特先生的钱。 I must pay Mr Pitt back the money he lent me.(pay him back the mon…ey/pay it back to him) 我必须还皮特先生借给我的钱。 pay someone back/out 算账,复仇,报复: I’ll pay you back for this. 这件事我要跟你算账。(报复你给我造成的损失。) pay up(intr)付清所欠的钱(常暗示付款者并不乐意): Unless you pay up I shall tell my solicitor to write to you. 除非你付清欠款,否则我要叫我的律师给你写信。 pick pick out(tr) 选择,将……同其他的区别开来: Here are six rings.Pick out the one you like best.(pick it out)这里有六枚戒指。选出你最喜欢的一枚。 In an identity parade the witness has to try to pick out the criminal from a group of about eight men.(pick the criminal out/pick him out) 在(警察局)辨认罪犯时,证人得试着从约八个人的一组中挑出罪犯来。 I know that you are in this photograph but I can’t pick you out. 我知道这张照片里有你,可是我认不出是哪一个。 pick up(tr) (a)扶起,抱起,拾起某人或物(常是从地上或从椅上或桌上): He picked up the child and carried him into the house.(picked the childup) 他抱起孩子并把他抱进了屋里了。 She scatters toys all over the floor and I have to pick them up. 她把玩具抛撒得到处都是,我得给拾起来。 (b)(乘车)来接: I won’t have time to e to your house but I could pick you up at theend of your road. 我会没有时间到你家来,但是我可以到你家马路尽头接你。 The coach stops at the principal hotels to pick up tourists,but only if theyarrange this in advance.(pick tourists up/pick them up) 大客车到各主要的旅馆来接观光者,但条件是必须事先安排好。 The crew of the wrecked yacht were picked up by helicopter. 失事的游艇上的船员们被直升机救起了。 (c)接收到无线电讯号: Their SOS was picked up by another ship,which informed the lifeboatheadquarters. 他们的呼救讯号被另一条船收到了,后者通知了救生艇总部。 (d)以廉价购得,不费力地学会: Sometimes you pick up wonderful bargains in these markets. 在这些市场上你有时能买到很好的便宜货。 Children usually pick up foreign languages very quickly. 儿童通常能很快地学会外语。 point point out(tr) 指示,指给……看: As we drove through the city the guide pointed out the most importantbuildings.(pointed the buildings out/pointed them out) 我们乘车通过市区时,导游把最重要的建筑物指给我们看。 pull pull down(tr) 拆毁(指建筑物): Everywhere elegant old buildings are being pulled down and mediocremodern erections are being put up.(pull do