2 make up与make up for表示“弥补”的区别
再问一下前面一个提问中的疑问：
Fat and salt are very important parts of a diet. They are required to process the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions. When fat and salt are removed (remove) from food, the food tastes as if it is missing something. As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing. Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up. Fast food is full of fat and salt；by eating more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.
请问句中的make up for可去掉for换成make up吗？
最佳答案 2023-10-29 21:59
虽然在一定语境下，make up sth 和 make up for sth都有类似“弥补”的含义，但你这里是无法替换的，因为弥补的方式和目的不同。
先看make up sth:
make up 的弥补，主要是因为数量/含量/份量的不足而弥补。注意，是数量的“不足”而不是东西的“缺失”。
再看make up for sth：
看到没，因为某种东东的缺失（lost）而替代，所以它的同义词是补偿（compensate）。
打个比方，假设你是老板，我这个下属为你背锅，造成我损失100元，如果：
1）你补给我100元，这是补足——金额不足，差多少，补多少----> make up sth;
2）你放我10天有薪假外带免费欧洲十日游，这是补偿——碗里的损失，锅里补----> make up for sth
现在你回过头再看你的文章，eat more food的原因，是因为fat and salt的份量/摄入量不足（make up sth），还是因为something has been lost（make up for）？
一家之言，仅供参考；
勤查英英，还需仔细。
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我的理解是：表示“补足数量”，通常用make up，但表示“弥补缺失或损失”用make up或make up for都可以。请看以下来自高考题的实例：
Statistics show that the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.9 in the early 1960s to 2.5 nowadays. Furthermore, around 50% of the world’s population live in regions where the figure is now below the replacement level (i.e. 2.1 births per woman) and almost all developed nations are experiencing sub-replacement birth rate. You might think that developing nations would make up the loss (especially since 80% of the world’s people now live in such nations), but you’d be wrong. Declining birth rate is a major problem in many developing regions too, which might cause catastrophic global shortages of work force within a few decades.——2017江苏卷
Simple improvements to infrastructure can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El Nino’s harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority.——2016江苏卷
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