make up the difference

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To make up the difference, Grassia buys one gallon of milk a week instead of three.
为了弥补差额，格拉亚每星期买一加仑牛奶，而不是三加仑牛奶。
You would be hard-pressed to make up the difference by savings on gasoline purchases. But you would be making a contribution to the battle against climate change.
买了混动版后，可以在加油的开支上节省出差价来，同时也算为抗击气候变化做贡献了。
Initial costs are still higher for such fixtures than for traditional bulbs, but lower electricity bills could make up the difference within a year or two, says Dr Hunter.
那些装置的最初成本依旧比旧式灯泡高，但是较低的电费单子也许在一年或者两年内弥补差额，Hunter博士如是说。

"And the way that we make up the difference for what those uninsured patients cost in terms of the cost of their care, is that we have to utilize the excess of revenues over expenses or the profits we generate from patients who have insurance."
So that doesn't make a difference for us when we're talking about neutral atoms, 4s because we would fill up the 4 s first, because that's lower in energy until we fill it, and then we just keep going with the d orbitals.
所以那对我们来说没什么不同,所以当我们讨论中性原子时，因为我们会首先填充，因为在我们填充它之前它的能量都较低，然后我们继续填充d轨道。
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"We have about three million international visitors a year. The difference is they make up about seventeen percent of our spending because they stay a little bit longer, they spend a little bit more."

You state and local taxes would just go up to make up the difference.
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