to compensate sb for sth就…对某人进行补偿
Rather than compensate people for unemployment, should we not rebuild the economy?相比为失业者提供补偿, 我们不是更应该重建经济吗？
The official promise to compensate people for the price rise clearly hadn't been worked out properly.官方就物价上涨对民众进行补偿的承诺显然没有落实好。