tian shan zhen ti-9

usdream

9.     Baker was perhaps not the most gifted soloist in the orchestra, but the conductor felt what was lacking in his technical skill was more than made up by the passion with which he played the music.

(A) what was lacking in his technical skill was more than made up by

(B) what he lacked in technical skill was more than made up by

(C) whatever was lacking in his technical skill was more than made up by

(D) whatever he lacked in technical skill was more than made up for by（B）

(E) whatever he lacked in technical skill he more than made up by

Could anybody help me verify what's the difference between "made up for" and "made up" here?

Thank you very much!

buddyk

make up for something phrasal verb

1 to make a bad situation better, or replace something that has been lost
The team will be anxious to make up for a disappointing start to the season.
I don't eat breakfast but I make up for it at lunch.
The good days more than make up for the bad ones.
see usage note include

2 to have so much of one quality that it is not important that you do not have much of another one
make up for something in/with
What Jay lacked in experience, he made up for in enthusiasm.
She doesn't have a natural talent but she makes up for it with hard work.

make up phrasal verb

1▶FORM/BE◀
make up something[not in progressive]to combine together to form something
ￚsynonym constitute
Women make up only a small proportion of the prison population.
be made up of something
The committee is made up of representatives from every state.

2▶RETEND SOMETHING IS TRUE◀
make something ↔ up   to pretend that something is true in order to deceive someone
I think they're making the whole thing up.
ￚsee also made-up (1)

3▶INVENT◀
make something ↔ up  to produce a new story, song, game etc by thinking
Nick made up a song about them.
When you're the boss you can make up your own rules.
I've given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking) .

4▶REPARE◀
make something ↔ up
to prepare something by mixing things or putting things together
I could make up a bed for you on the sofa.
Can you make up a bottle of milk for the baby?

5▶SOMEBODY'S FACE◀
make somebody ↔ up to put make-up (=special coloured substances) on someone's face in order to make them look better or different
They made him up as an old man for the last act of the play.
One lucky winner will have the chance to be made up and photographed.
ￚsee also made-up (2)

6▶NUMBER/AMOUNT◀
make something ↔ up especially British English to add to an amount in order to bring it up to the level that is needed
I saved as much as I could, and my parents made up the rest.
The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference .

7▶TIME/WORK◀
make something ↔ up  to work at times when you do not usually work, because you have not done as much work as you should
I'm trying to make up the time I lost while I was sick.
Is it OK if I make the work up next week?

8▶FRIENDS◀
also make it up  informal to become friendly with someone again after you have had an argument
make up with
Have you made up with Patty yet?
Oh come on! Why don't you just kiss and make up ?

9▶FROM CLOTH◀
make something ↔ up  to produce something from cloth by cutting and sewing
The dress had been made up to her exact requirements.
make something ↔ up into
I plan on making that material up into a dress.
ￚsee also make up your mind atmind1 (3)

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buddyk

简单地说，make up for 表达弥补和补偿的意思；

make up虽然也有弥补的意思，但它主要不是这个意思，make up的意思有弥补，虚构, 缝制, 整理, 包装, 和解, 编辑, 化妆
补足,拼凑的意思。make up 作为弥补和补偿的意思是主要用在弥补时间和补偿工作等跟时间相关的用法上。

所以这里应该用make up for。

buddyk

Baker was perhaps not the most gifted soloist in the orchestra, but the conductor felt whatever he lacked in technical skill was more than made up for by the passion with which he played the music.

B可能不是管弦乐团最天才的独唱演员，但指挥觉得不管他在技巧上缺少什么都更好地被他演绎音乐时的激情所弥补。

usdream

Hi, Buddyk Banzhu, seems like that you prefer D to B?

buddyk

是的，我跟高人讨论过了，我们都认为应该选D。

whatever要比what好，这里。

我认为made up for比made up 好，高人认为这里都可以。

cranberry

bingo！我一直认为whatever的语气是非常舒服的，而且make up for确实是弥补的意思，而make up没有这个意思，它的弥补的意思是在replace的意思的基础上的，即替换后的补偿，这里两个咚咚之间不可能有代偿的意思。