babysit

英 [ˈbeɪbisɪt]

美 [ˈbeɪbisɪt]

v.  代人临时照看小孩; 当临时保姆

现在分词：babysitting　第三人称单数：babysits　

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牛津词典

verb

• 代人临时照看小孩；当临时保姆
  to take care of babies or children for a short time while their parents are out
  1. She regularly babysits for us.
     她定期来为我们照看小孩。
  2. He's babysitting the neighbour's children.
     他在帮邻居临时照看小孩。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 替人临时照看（小孩）
  If youbabysit forsomeone orbabysittheir children, you look after their children while they are out.
  1. I promised to babysit for Mrs Plunkett...
     我答应给普伦基特夫人临时照看孩子。
  2. My friend asked me to babysit for her six-month-old son...
     我朋友请我临时看顾她6个月大的儿子。
  3. You can take it in turns to babysit...
     你们可以轮流照看孩子。
  4. She had been babysitting him and his four-year-old sister.
     她一直都在照看他和他4岁的妹妹。

双语例句

• I'll babysit your little cousin.
  我立即去照顾你的小表妹。
• I have to babysit my little sister when mom is outside.
  当妈妈外出时，我不得不照顾我的小妹妹。
• If someone you know has been looking like they need some time off, offer to babysit their kids so they can take a night off to enjoy.
  如果你认识的某个人看起来需要点儿时间休息，你可以主动帮忙看孩子，这样他们就可以享受一晚了。
• Like the time she told my guidance counselor that I had to miss school for exploratory surgery, when she really needed me to babysit.
  就像上次她跟我的指导员说因为我要做外科手术需要请假，而实际上她真正的目的是要我帮她带小孩。
• Go have a coffee or tea with a relative once a week or the like. Offer to babysit for a relative or close friends. Golf, walk, or play tennis, for example with an old workmate etc. Try to schedule two things that happen regularly.
  和亲戚一星期在一起喝一次或几次咖啡或茶，主动给亲戚或亲近的朋友看孩子，比如说和老搭档去打高尔夫、散步或者打网球等等，努力安排两件定期做的事。
• Benjamin and Hope Jordan hired Khan to babysit their son, Finn, last year after they moved to Charleston. They say Khan came up clean in a background check.
  本杰明和霍普乔丹夫妇去年搬到了查尔斯顿，他们雇了亚历克西斯照顾自己的儿子芬恩，他们之前也对亚历克西斯做过背景调查，当时一切没有问题。
• No, she can 't.She has to babysit her sister.
  她不能来，好要照顾她妹妹。
• Is that ally is old enough to babysit.
  艾丽已经不需要保姆了。
• My friend asked me to babysit for her six-month-old son
  我朋友请我临时看顾她6个月大的儿子。
• As an example, I remember what a friend said, on hearing her husband complain to his buddies that he had to babysit.
  作为一个例子，我记得一个朋友说过当她的丈夫向他的朋友抱怨自己要看孩子时，我的朋友很快纠正了她丈夫的想法。