making out 是make out 的 v-ing 这一非谓语动词的形式。其意义如下:
make out
1. 填写(表格); 开出(支票、账单)
Please make out a bill for these goods.
请给这些物品开个账单。
2. 辨认出
It was difficult to make out the manager's handwriting.
经理的字迹很难辨认。
3. 理解, 明白
She was a strange sort of person; I couldn't make her out.
她这个人有些古怪, 我不能理解她。
4. 声称
You can't make out that we haven't tried to help you.
你不能声称我们没有试图帮助你。
5. 假装
Let's make out that we are wrecked on a desert island.
让我们假装在荒岛上遇难。