patch up

1 → variant of patch at patch2

2 phrasal verbphr v

a) ARGUEto end an argument because you want to stay friendly with someone 与〔某人〕和解；解决分歧〕

Try to patch up your differences before he leaves.

尽量在他走之前解决你们之间的分歧。

patch it/things up (with somebody)

He went back to patch things up with his wife.

他回去想跟妻子和好。

b) REPAIRto repair a hole in something by putting a piece of something else over it 修补

We’ll have to patch up the hole in the roof.

我们得修补屋顶上的洞。

c) MHto give quick and basic medical treatment to someone who is hurt 快速处理，临时包扎〔伤者〕

We patched up the wounded as best we could.

我们尽可能地给伤者包扎好。

Examples from the Corpus

patch up• Colin and Dawn fell in love when Dawn tried to help them patch things up.• They are responsible of the errors committed and they are the ones who must patch things up.• We followed a dirt road through Chianti vineyards, waving to stubbly-faced farmers in corduroy trousers festooned with patches.• They patched him up, and he dozed through the night.• Simply making the effort to talk about how to patch things up could turn you into a human relations winner.• What can I do to patch things up for them?• A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing, with the greatest of ease.• Eventually, we patched things up with some pumpkin pie.

patch up ... differences• And the couple are now taking an early-break break from their civic duties to patch up their differences.• But the pair, openly hostile by the end of last year, will patch up their mutual differences.• Phil Coleman ... patched up his differences with Steve Dowman at Wivenhoe.

→ patch something/somebody ↔ up at patch2(2)

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