make out ( making, made, makes )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you make something out, you manage with difficulty to see or hear it. (费力地) 看出; 听出

  例：

  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.

  我只能看出一个高高的、苍白的、朦胧的人影穿行在矮灌木丛中。

  例：

  She thought she heard a name. She couldn't make it out, though.

  她以为自己听到了一个名字，但听不清楚。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you try to make something out, you try to understand it or decide whether or not it is true. 理解; 辨清

  例：

  I couldn't make it out at all.

  我完全不能明白它。

  例：

  It is hard to make out what criteria are used.

  难以辨清使用了什么标准。

• 3. 

  PHRASAL VERB 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. 证明; 竭力说

  例：

  They were trying to make out that I'd actually done it.

  他们在试图证明我确实做了那件事。

  例：

  I don't think it was as glorious as everybody made it out to be.

  我认为这不像大家说的那样了不起。

• 4. 

  PHRASAL VERB When you make out a cheque, receipt, or order form, you write all the necessary information on it. 填写完

  例：

  I'll make the cheque out to you and put it in the post this afternoon.

  我会给你写一张支票并于今天下午邮寄给你。

• 5. 

  PHRASAL VERB If two people are making out, they are engaged in sexual activity. 性交 [美国英语] [非正式]

  例：

  ...pictures of the couple making out on the beach.

  …那对夫妇在海滩做爱的照片。