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babysit

B1 verb

babysit /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ nghĩa là trông trẻ, trông em

Các nghĩa

  1. trông trẻ · trông em

    To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

    ambitransitive

    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.

    Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.

  2. trông chừng, theo dõi

    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. kè kè, chăm bẵm quá mức

    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.

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