making

1. N-UNCOUNT The making of something is the act or process of producing or creating it. 制作; 创作

...Salamon's book about the making of this film. 萨拉蒙的关于制作这部影片的书。

2. PHRASE If you describe a person or thing as something in the making, you mean that they are going to become known or recognized as that thing. 形成中的

Her drama teacher is confident Julie is a star in the making. 她的戏剧老师相信朱莉是未来的明星。

3. PHRASE If something is the making of a person or thing, it is the reason that they become successful or become very much better than they used to be. 是某人/某物成功的因素

This discovery may yet be the making of him. 这一发现也许成为他成功的因素。

4. PHRASE If you say that a person or thing has the makings of something, you mean it seems possible or likely that they will become that thing, as they have the necessary qualities. 有某事物的素质

Godfrey had the makings of a successful journalist. 戈弗雷具备一个成功记者的素质。

5. PHRASE If you say that something such as a problem you have is of your own making, you mean you have caused or created it yourself. (问题等) 由某人自己造成的

Some of the university's financial troubles are of its own making. 该大学的一些财政困难是其自身造成的。