baby-sit

詳細解釋：

ba.by-sit

v.（動詞）
ba.by-.sat[-s2t.] ba.by-.sit.ting,ba.by-.sits
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To take care of someone or something needing attention or guidance.
臨時照看：照看那些需要注意或指引的人或事
v.tr.（及物動詞）
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；看守蘇聯逃兵；注意 * 性的新聞報導

<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.
動詞baby-sit 會引起父母、孩子或語言學家的興趣。 語言學家對此感興趣是因為它說明了兩種叫做逆序造詞的語言形成類型中的一種。第一種類型源於誤解，如pea 一詞的例子。 在中古英文中pea 的原形有複數形式， 如pese 和 pease， 它們的單數形式是相同的。換句話說，s 是詞的一部分， 不是複數詞尾。但在7世紀初左右，人們開始把s 所代表的音理解為複數詞尾， 因此，在現代英文中被拼作pea 的新的單數形式，發展起來。 另一方面，以baby-sit 為例，它第一次被記載於947年， baby sitter 第一次被記錄於937年，沒有歧義產生。 加上後綴-er 的動因名詞 babysitter 可能是從動詞 baby-sit 衍生出來的， 就象diver 是從 dive 衍生出來的一樣， 但是跡象似乎表明這個模式是反向的，動因名詞先於在正常情況下它從中衍生的動詞出現