一、表示事业获得成功或者表示某人做成某事
You will make it if you try. 你会成功的，如果你努力的话。
You needn’t worry; he will make it. 你不必担心，他会办成的。
If you want to make it, better get doing. 如果你想把这事干成，就该动手了。
二、表示及时赶上火车或者表示及时抵达某地
The train won’t leave for another ten minutes, so I think we can make it. 离开车还有10分钟，我想我们能赶得上。
We are too late; I don’t think we can make it. 我们太迟了，我想我们难以准时赶到了。
三、表示约定时间
Let’s make it at 8:30. Is that all right for you? 我们约定在8点半吧，这对你合适吗?
四、表示病情好转
The doctor knew that the patient was unlikely to make it. 医生知道那个病人没什么希望了。
He had a high fever, but it doesn’t mean he couldn’t make it. 他发高烧，但这并不意味着他挺不过去。
以下make it…结构中的it为形式宾语：
I have to make it clear that my family is poor. 我得说清楚我家里很穷。
He made it a rule to take part in physical labour. 他规定自己应参加体力劳动。
I make it a rule to write in my diary every night. 我把每晚写日记当成一种习惯。
