動(dòng)詞 baby-sit:

1. take watchful responsibility for
2. work or act as a baby-sitter
   同義詞：sit

1. She regularly baby-sits for us.
   她定期前來(lái)為我們照看嬰兒。

ba.by-sit

v.（動(dòng)詞）
ba.by-.sat[-s2t.] ba.by-.sit.ting,ba.by-.sits
v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
To take care of someone or something needing attention or guidance.
臨時(shí)照看：照看那些需要注意或指引的人或事
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
To take care of:
照看：
例句：
baby-sat the children; baby-sat the Soviet defector; baby-sit a breaking news story.
照看孩子；看守蘇聯(lián)逃兵；注意爆炸性的新聞報(bào)道

<注釋>The verbbaby-sit is of interest to parents, children, and linguists. It is interesting to the last group because it illustrates one of two types of the linguistic process called back-formation.The first type is based on misunderstanding, as in the case of our wordpea. In Middle English the ancestor ofpea had plural forms, such aspese and pease, that were identical with singular forms.In other words, thes was part of the word, not a plural ending.But around the beginning of the 7th century people began to interpret the sound represented bys as a plural ending, and a new singular, spelledpea in Modern English, was developed. On the other hand, in the case ofbaby-sit, first recorded in 947, andbaby sitter, first recorded in 937, no misunderstanding is involved. The agent nounbaby sitter with its -er suffix could have been derived from the verb baby-sit, asdiver was from dive, but the evidence seems to show that the pattern was reversed,and the agent noun preceded the verb from which it would normally have been derived.
動(dòng)詞baby-sit 會(huì)引起父母、孩子或語(yǔ)言學(xué)家的興趣。 語(yǔ)言學(xué)家對(duì)此感興趣是因?yàn)樗f(shuō)明了兩種叫做逆序造詞的語(yǔ)言形成類型中的一種。第一種類型源于誤解，如pea 一詞的例子。 在中古英語(yǔ)中pea 的原形有復(fù)數(shù)形式， 如pese 和 pease， 它們的單數(shù)形式是相同的。換句話說(shuō)，s 是詞的一部分， 不是復(fù)數(shù)詞尾。但在7世紀(jì)初左右，人們開(kāi)始把s 所代表的音理解為復(fù)數(shù)詞尾， 因此，在現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)中被拼作pea 的新的單數(shù)形式，發(fā)展起來(lái)。 另一方面，以baby-sit 為例，它第一次被記載于947年， baby sitter 第一次被記錄于937年，沒(méi)有歧義產(chǎn)生。 加上后綴-er 的動(dòng)因名詞 babysitter 可能是從動(dòng)詞 baby-sit 衍生出來(lái)的， 就象diver 是從 dive 衍生出來(lái)的一樣， 但是跡象似乎表明這個(gè)模式是反向的，動(dòng)因名詞先于在正常情況下它從中衍生的動(dòng)詞出現(xiàn)