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1、appropriate
适当的;合适的;恰当的
It is appropriate that Irish names dominate the list.
名单上大部分是爱尔兰名字，这没什么不合适的。
Dress neatly and attractively in an outfit appropriate to the job.
着装要整洁美观，适合于这份工作。
私占；侵吞；盗用；挪用
Several other newspapers have appropriated the idea.
另外有几家报社已盗用了这个创意。
The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
土地完全被统治者霸占。
拨出（专款）
Senator Lugar is skeptical that Congress will appropriate more funding for this purpose.
参议员卢格怀疑国会是否会拨出更多资金用于此目的。
2、make up
组成;构成
North Africans make up the largest and poorest immigrant group in the country.
北非人构成了该国最大的、也是最贫困的移民群。
Women officers make up 13 per cent of the police force.
女警占警力的13%。
编造;虚构
I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him.
我认为你编造他的谣言很不厚道。
I'm not making it up. The character exists in real life.
我没有凭空捏造，这种人现实生活中确实存在。
（给…）化妆;（为…）打扮
She spent too much time making herself up.
她在化妆上花去了太多时间。
She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement photographs.
她选择玛吉为她拍订婚照的时候化妆。
