"make up", "make from" 和 "make up of" 都有“制造”的意思, 我是否可以把它们相互替换呢？

Question16: Since "make from","make of" and "make up of"

have
the same meaning of "produce",can I use them

interchangeably?

Answer:Though the meanings are

similar,there're slight differences
between them and it doesn't make

sense if we replace them casually.
When you use "make from" to describe

the act of making,usually you
are not able to know the raw material of

the products (glass, paper
etc.)while "make of" is just the opposite

(desk, chair etc.). When
a product is "made up of"something, the

product can mostly be
recognized as a mixture. And sometime its usage

is the same as
"compose" or "consist", e.g. The City of Shanghai is

made up of ten
districts.

问题16: "make up", "make

from" 和 "make up of" 都有“制造”的意思,
我是否可以把它们相互替换呢？

答:

虽然这些词意义相近,但还是有细微的差别,所以不可以随意替换。如果你
是用make

from来描述“制造”这个动作的，在制成品中通常看不出原料，如：
玻璃,纸等。用make of则恰恰相反,如:桌子,椅子等。如果是make

up of的话,
制成品通常是由很多材料混合而成。有时，其用法也可等同于compose或consist，表示“由……组成”。例如：The

City of Shanghai is made up of ten districts.