a)CHECK/MAKE SUREto find out if something is true or to check that something has been done 〔把某事〕弄清楚,查明
‘Did you lock the front door?’ ‘I think so, but I’d better make sure.’
“前门你锁了吗?”“我想是锁了,但我最好还是去查看一下。”
make sure (that)
I wanted to make sure you were all right.
我想确认一下你是否没事。
First, make sure the printer has enough paper in it.
首先,确保打印机里有足够的纸张。
b)CERTAINLY/DEFINITELYto do something so that you can be certain of the result 确保
make sure (that)
I’ll walk you home, just to make sure no one bothers you.
我陪你走回家,就为确保没人骚扰你。
make sure of (doing) something
Spain made sure of their place by holding Japan to a 1–1 draw.
和日本队踢成 1 比 1 平让西班牙确保了自己的排名。
Thomas would be sorry – she would make sure of that.
托马斯会后悔的——她一定要叫他后悔。
Examples from the Corpus
make sure of that• Dana Barros made sure of that.• Oh, the local paper printed an apology - I made sure of that!• R: Especially the tourists couldn't miss it - we made sure of that.• She had made sure of that.• The farmlandclinicians from Lincoln made sure of that.• The newly opened InternationalMuseum of CartoonArt will make sure of that.• The snipers and the mortarsmake sure of that.• And the way to make sure of that was to get pregnant.