babysitter

英 [ˈbeɪbisɪtə(r)]

美 [ˈbeɪbisɪtər]

n.  临时保姆; 代人临时照看小孩的人

复数：babysitters　

BNC.22346

牛津词典

noun

• 临时保姆；代人临时照看小孩的人
  a person who takes care of babies or children while their parents are away from home and is usually paid to do this
  1. I can't find a babysitter for tonight.
     我找不到人今天晚上帮我看小孩。

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。

英英释义

noun

• a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
  Synonym:baby-sittersitter

双语例句

• They arranged for a babysitter to take care of the children.
  他们安排了一位保姆来照顾孩子。
• You know guy, I didn't ask you to play babysitter for me.
  你家伙听好，我没要你做我的保姆。
• I promised the babysitter that we'd be home by midnight.
  我向保姆承诺我们将在午夜前回家。
• The babysitter will look after my son when I go to work.
  当我去上班的时候，保姆照顾我儿子。
• The babysitter we employed walked away with the money while we were at work.
  我们雇的保姆趁我们上班时把钱偷走了。
• I got a babysitter for the first time in three months.
  三个月里，我第一次请到了一个保姆。
• You want me to be the babysitter, but you want me to be deaf and blind too?
  你要我来当保姆，而且也要我充耳不闻对吧？
• Any time you want a babysitter, dear, you only have to ask
  亲爱的，你什么时候需要人帮忙照看孩子，只要开口说一声就行。
• You'll become a babysitter.
  不然你会变成一个保姆。
• She couldn't always afford a babysitter
  她并不是总能请得起临时保姆。