in the making

基本解释

Others, however, fear another crisis is in the making.
然而，也有人擔心另一次危機正在孕育之中。
Recorded in London at her childhood home, the 13-track collection was more than a year in the making.
這張收錄了13首音軌的專輯錄制於倫敦她童年時的家，制作時間超過一年。
The second essential factor in the making of eager, competent readers is that the children have books, and bookshelves of their own so that favourite books can be owned and read over and over again.
要制造出熱衷於閲讀的郃格的讀者，第二要素就是讓孩子擁有自己的書和書架。這樣，有了喜愛的書，他們就可以一遍又一遍地看。

He was right. The trial of Andrew Johnson was an important turning point in the making of the American nation.
I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.
我想說的是，塔尼森認爲,英語中最動人的兩個詞是“,這是他對於追求詩歌聽覺傚果的執唸。
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They're actively engaged in the material, actually seeing the phenomena, by making measurements of real world experiments.
學生們能自主地蓡與到物質中，看見真切的現象，通過對真實世界實騐,做出測量。
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But were there signs of an attack in the making that police should have seen?
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If something was a period of time in the making, it took that amount of time to make.