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

• The hotel manager will arrange for a babysitter
  宾馆经理会安排人照看婴儿。
• Today I would be a babysitter!
  今天我会是一个保姆！
• Which is trying to find a babysitter for valentine's night.
  在情人节晚上给孩子们找个保姆。
• 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。
• She enjoyed most her employment as babysitter.
  她非常喜欢保姆的工作。
• 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。
• We've each got a babysitter.
  我们每个人都有个保姆了。
• Believe it or not, I was once a babysitter for a day.
  不管你信不信，我曾当了一天的“保姆”。
• You'll become a babysitter.
  不然你会变成一个保姆。
• Oh, I'm a babysitter.
  哦，我是来做保姆的。