喜樂美語
  1. 1vB1/ˈbeɪbisɪt/臨時照顧小孩

    To take care of someone else's children for a short time — an evening or an afternoon — while their parents are out. People are often paid a small amount of money for doing this.

    示範例句 · Example

    Can you babysit my little sister on Friday night?

    逐字你可以在星期五晚上照顧我的妹妹嗎？

    babysit 說的是「趁爸媽出門的時候，幫他們照顧小孩」——時間很短，通常就一個晚上或一個下午，而且常常可以拿到一點錢。可以想成 baby + sit：坐下來陪著小孩；美式英文甚至可以只說 sit，照顧的人叫 sitter。它跟 look after 不一樣：look after 什麼人都能照顧（小孩、老人、寵物），時間也可以很長；babysit 只用在小孩，而且是短短一段時間。

    常見搭配

    • babysit for somebody

      幫某人照顧小孩

      to look after another person's children for them

      Ren used to babysit for the Wu family when they worked late.

    • ask somebody to babysit

      請某人幫忙看小孩

      to ask someone to look after your children for a short time

      I'll ask Mei to babysit on Wednesday night.

    • babysit the kids

      顧那幾個小孩

      to look after the children in a family

      Sam babysat the kids while their mum went to the market.

    • do some babysitting

      偶爾接一些看小孩的工作

      to work as a babysitter, usually now and then

      Aisha does some babysitting at the weekend to save up for a bike.

    • need a babysitter

      需要找人看小孩

      to need someone to look after your children

      We need a babysitter if we want to go to the show.

    意思相近

    mindsitwatchlook aftertake care of

    用法接近

    babysitterchildmindernannyau pairchildcarekeep an eye on

core核心畫面

Picture the parents putting on their coats and going out for the evening, while you stay in the house with their child: feeding her, playing a game, getting her into bed, and waiting until they come home. You are not the parent and it is not your child — you are holding the place for a few hours, and you are often paid a little for it.

可以想成這樣一個畫面：父母穿上外套出門過一個晚上，你留在他們家裡陪著小孩——弄點東西吃、陪玩一下、哄上床睡覺，然後等他們回來。你不是家長，孩子也不是你的，你只是在這幾個小時裡替他們把位子頂著；通常還會拿到一點酬勞。重點在「短時間、代替父母、把人看好」這三件事。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

過去式 babysat過去分詞 babysat-ing babysitting三單 babysits

意思相近

mindsitwatchlook aftertake care of

用法接近

babysitterchildmindernannyau pairchildcarekeep an eye on

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

babysitverb/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/

  • 1

    To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

    • My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
    • We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.
  • 2

    informalTo watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.

    • The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.
  • 3

    informalTo watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.

    • He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.
    • It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]

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