(noun.) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; 'the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake'.
克拉丽斯编辑
双语例句
Won't you say yes--I will devote my life to making you very happy. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
A constitution of the Japanese type came into existence in 1909, making China a limited monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
He's good enough for the occasion: when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man--they only want a vote. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I think it would be advisable in making the change to leave Hancock where he is until Warren passes him. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Presently, without preface or prelude, she said, almost in the tone of one making an accusation, Meess, in England you were a governess? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
The Peruvians also got to making maps and the use of counting-frames. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
See him busied at the work he likes best--making marriages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I can do dress-making very well; and I understand fine washing and ironing; and between us we can find something to live on. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. 李贝.西洋科学史.
They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Poririer, a Frenchman, invented a machine for making match boxes of pasteboard. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Thou and thy vagabonds shall crown the wedding with thy merry-makings. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.