ph.
A leap in the dark-(冒险举动)
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1. (勉强地)辨认出,看出,听出
If you make something out, you manage with difficulty to see or hear it.
2. 把…弄清楚;理解;明白
If you try to make something out, you try to understand it or decide whether or not it is true.
3. 力图说成;努力证明
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.
4. 举例证明(…是最好的);证实(…是对的)
If you make out a case for something, you try to establish or prove that it is the best thing to do.
5. 书写,填写(支票、收据或订货单)
When you make out a cheque, receipt, or order form, you write all the necessary information on it.
6. (工作、生活)进展
If you ask how someone is making out, you are asking how well they are doing with a particular task, or in their life in general.
7. 爱抚;亲吻
If two people are making out, they are engaged in sexual activity.
1. comprehend
e.g. I cannot make out what this politician is saying
2. try to establish
e.g. She made out that she know nothing about the crime
3. imply or suggest
e.g. Your remarks make me out to be stupid
4. write all the required information onto a form
e.g. fill out this questionnaire, please!
make out a form
Synonym: completefill outfill in
5. make out and issue
e.g. write out a check
cut a ticket
Please make the check out to me
6. kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
e.g. The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
Synonym: neck
7. have sexual intercourse with
e.g. This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
Synonym: sleep togetherroll in the haylovemake lovesleep withget laidhave sexknowdo itbe intimatehave intercoursehave it awayhave it offscrewfuckjazzeffhumplie withbedhave a go at itbangget it onbonk
8. detect with the senses
e.g. The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
I can't make out the faces in this photograph
Synonym: spotrecognizerecognisedistinguishdiscernpick outtell apart
9. come to terms with
e.g. We got by on just a gallon of gas
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Synonym: copeget bymake docontendgrappledealmanage
10. proceed or get along
e.g. How is she doing in her new job?
How are you making out in graduate school?
He's come a long way