make up for

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To make up for lost revenue, it would have to be a stiff one, and levied on practically everything.
为弥补损失的税收，就不得不有一个严厉的税，而且几乎在所有事情上征收。
Your mission on earth was to make up for these former lives, to bring back love and justice to humanity.
你们在地球上的任务就是为以前的这些生世做补偿，给人类带回爱和正义。
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If someone tries to update the checking account balance column to a negative amount, we try and see if we have enough in the savings account to make up for the negative amount.
如果有人想要将支票帐户的余额列更新为一个负数，我们就可以试着看看在储蓄帐户中是否有足够多的钱来补偿这个负数。

He says they might be trying to increase their dopamine levels to make up for the deficits in their reward system.
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 this shortfall, America needs to have its entrepreneurs and home businesses succeed.
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