babysit

中文： 代人照看孩子、照看婴儿

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. To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen. (informal, transitive) · The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.
3. To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much. (informal, transitive) · He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.

He/she/it babysits · 过去式 babysat · 过去分词 babysat · -ing形式 babysitting