compensate
/ˈkɒmpenseɪt/verb
1
- with obj. recompense (someone) for loss, suffering, or injury, typically by the award of a sum of money（因损失、受苦或受伤）补偿, 赔偿（某人）（尤指给一笔钱）：
payments were made to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies.
向农民付款以补偿补助金的削减。
1.1
- pay (someone) for work performed酬报（某人）：
he will be richly compensated for his efforts.
他将因他的努力得到丰厚的回报。
2
- no obj.
compensate for
make up for (something unwelcome or unpleasant) by exerting an opposite force or effect弥补, 抵消（不受欢迎的或令人讨厌的事物）： the manager is hoping for victory to compensate for the team's dismal league campaign.
经理盼望着胜利以弥补球队在联赛中的沉闷情绪。
2.1
- act so as to neutralize or correct (a deficiency or abnormality in a physical property or effect)校正; 平衡; 补偿：
the output voltage rises, compensating for the original fall.
输出电压升高, 补偿了最初的下降。
2.2
- attempt to conceal or offset (a disability or frustration) by development in another direction（以另一方面的发展）隐藏, 弥补（无能, 挫折）; 补偿, 代偿：
they identified with radical movements to compensate for their inability to relate to individual human beings.
他们支持激进运动以掩盖他们在与个人相处方面的无能。
派生词
compensative
adjectivecompensator
noun词源
mid 17th cent. （in the sense 'counterbalance'）： from Latin compensat- 'weighed against', from the verb compensare, from com- 'together' + pensare （frequentative of pendere 'weigh'）.