1、make up
組成;構成
North Africans make up the largest and poorest immigrant group in the country.
北非人構成了該國最大的、也是最貧困的移民群。
Women officers make up 13 per cent of the police force.
女警占警力的13%。
編造;虛構
I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him.
我認為你編造他的謠言很不厚道。
I'm not making it up. The character exists in real life.
我沒有憑空捏造，這種人現實生活中確實存在。
（給…）化妝;（為…）打扮
She spent too much time making herself up.
她在化妝上花去了太多時間。
She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement photographs.
她選擇瑪吉為她拍訂婚照的時候化妝。
湊足;補齊
Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference.
學生領到的錢有不到一半是助學金，差額部分由貸款補足。
The team had six professionals and made the number up with five amateurs.
該隊有6名職業運動員和湊數的5名業余運動員。
2、universe
宇宙
Einstein's equations showed the Universe to be expanding.
愛因斯坦的方程式表明宇宙正在膨脹。
Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.
早期的天文學家認為我們的星球是宇宙的中心。
經驗領域
Good writers suck in what they see of the world, recreating their own universe on the page.
優秀的作家從他們眼中的世界汲取體驗，然后在紙上重塑自己的天地。
They marked out the boundaries of our visual universe.
他們標出了我們視覺經驗領域的界限。