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/ˈbeɪbisɪt/
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.
臨時照顧小孩
過去式 babysat過去分詞 babysat-ing babysitting三單 babysits
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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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 […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。