make it

a) ARRIVEto succeed in getting somewhere in time for something or when this is difficult 〔尤指在困难情况下〕准时到达，赶上

If we run, we should make it.

如果我们跑的话，应该来得及。

make it to

With blood pouring from his leg, he made it to a nearby house.

虽然腿上鲜血直流，他还是坚持走到了附近的一所房子。

b) SUCCESSFULto be successful at something, for example in your job 获得成功

He came to the US and not only made it but made it big (=was extremely successful).

他来到美国，不仅成功了，而且是大获成功。

So far, relatively few women have made it to the top in the business world.

到目前为止，在商业圈里做到很高职位的女性还是相对很少。

make it as

He was told he had no talent and would never make it as a professional singer.

他被告知他不具备天分，永远无法成为职业歌手。

make it to

England look less likely to make it to the finals.

英格兰队看起来进入决赛的可能性较小。

make it to manager/director etc

How did anyone so stupid make it to manager?

这么愚蠢的人怎么当上经理的？

c) spokenGO TO/ATTEND to be able to go to an event, meeting etc that has been arranged 能参加，能出席已安排好的活动、会议等〕

I’m really sorry, but I won’t be able to make it on Sunday after all.

非常抱歉，我星期天还是不行。

Nice to see you. I’m glad you could make it.

见到你真好。我很高兴你能来。

d) SURVIVE informal to continue to live after you have been seriously ill or badly injured 渡过难关〔指重病或重伤之后〕

Frank was very ill, and the doctors didn’t think he’d make it.

弗兰克病情非常严重，医生认为他挺不过来了。

e) to manage to deal with a difficult experience 成功渡过

make it through

I couldn’t have made it through those times without the support of my boyfriend.

没有我男朋友的支持我是不可能渡过那些难关的。

f) used to say or ask what time it is according to your own or someone else’s watch 〔根据自己或别人的表〕时间为…

What time do you make it?

你的表几点？

I make it ten past three.

我的表是三点十分。

Examples from the Corpus

make through• I still try to ensure that in general he makes it through a book within a week or ten days.• The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there, and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek.• That we made it through Taos without being apprehended seems astonishing.• But once a manager makes it through the early tough years, the job becomes much more lucrative.• Lesley's family, colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours.• Their superiors said all but three made it through the first year.• The rules to make it through the obstacle course of a day's commute to school are carefully laid out.

→ make it at make1(1)

2 spoken used to correct what you have just said 是…，应该是…〔用于纠正刚说过的话〕

Can we have two cups of coffee, please? No, make that three.

请给我们来两杯咖啡好吗？不对，是三杯。

→ make it/that something at make1(3)

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