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/ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtər/ · /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtə/
To look after someone else's children for a short time while their parents are out, often in the evening, and often as a small job you are paid for.
當保姆；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 person who arrives just as the parents are leaving for the evening: she stays with the child, feeds him, gets him to bed, and hands him back when they come home. A babysitter is that person — the one who does the few-hours job of standing in for the parents, usually for a small payment. (Note: this entry is tagged as a verb and its definition is written as an action; the word itself names the person, not the act.)
可以想成父母出門那一刻進門的那個人：她留下來陪孩子吃飯、洗澡、上床，等父母回來再交回去。babysitter 指的就…更多收起
可以想成父母出門那一刻進門的那個人：她留下來陪孩子吃飯、洗澡、上床，等父母回來再交回去。babysitter 指的就是「做這件事的那個人」——臨時代看小孩的保姆，通常領一點鐘點費。要注意這筆資料本身有瑕疵：詞性被標成動詞（v），定義也寫成動作「照顧小孩」，那其實是 babysit 的意思；-er 這個字尾在這裡指人，所以 I need a babysitter 是「我需要找個人來看小孩」，不是一個動作。原始詞典資料2 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。
babysitternoun/ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə/
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A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
- My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
- 2
derogatoryA person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
- He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.
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。