making n. 1.制作(物),制造(物),生產;一次制造量;發展[發達]過程;成功的原因[手段];組織;〔常 pl.〕原料,材料。 2.〔口語〕 〔pl.〕利益,賺頭,所得。 3.〔pl.〕素質,要素。 4.〔pl.〕〔美口〕(自卷自抽的)卷煙材料[紙和煙]。 5. (煤礦中挖出來的)粉煤。 the makings of a good garden 一個美好的花園的條件。 be the making of 成為…的基礎,保證…的成功 (His failure has been the making of him. 他的失敗成了他成功的原因)。 have the makings of 具有…的素質。 in making 制造中,建設中。 in the making 醞釀中的,在發展過程中的;未完成的。
She sought to make light of the rates . 她企圖貶低地方稅的作用。
We made light work of the tidying up . 我們做整理工作輕而易舉。
newborn calves make light of tigers . 初生之犢不畏虎。
He made light of his injury . 他不在意自己的傷。
Many hands make light work . 眾檠易舉。
"you are shrewd enough to make light of it," returned the stranger . “你倒很靈巧,把事情說成無關緊要,”陌生人回答說。
Unlike many travellers, bartram makes light of personal discomforts . 巴特蘭姆和許多別的旅行家不同,他對于個人的痛苦毫不在意。
There was no way townsend could ignore the significance of what andrew had seen, but he attempted to make light of it . 對安德魯看到的這一切,湯森特自然無法佯裝無事,他力圖輕描淡寫地遮掩過去。
Made light and high by yeast or other leaven 發酵的用酵母或其它發酵劑使…輕而高
That thing that you have that makes light . where is it 那個會發光的東西在哪里?