baby
noun /ˈbeɪbi/
/ˈbeɪbi/
(plural babies)
Idioms - a very young child or animal
婴儿；动物幼崽 - The baby's crying!
婴儿在哭！ - a newborn baby
新生儿 - My sister's expecting a baby (= she is pregnant).
我姐姐怀孕了。 - She had a baby last year.
她去年生了个孩子。 - The baby was born last night.
婴儿是昨晚出生的。 - Mother and baby are doing well.
母子平安。 - The baby is due in October.
宝宝将在 10 月份出生。 - The baby was delivered by a midwife.
这孩子是助产士接生的。 - a baby boy/girl
男婴；女婴 - a baby daughter/son/sister/brother
小女儿/儿子/妹妹/弟弟 - baby food/clothes
婴儿食品／服装 - a baby monkey/blackbird
幼猴；黑鹂雏
Collocations ChildrenChildren孩子 怀孕 - want a baby/a child/kids
想要孩子 - start a family
生孩子 - conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
怀孕 - miss your period
月经未按期来 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
怀孕了；发现怀孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一个宝宝／一个孩子／孩子／一个儿子／一个女儿／一对双胞胎／孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常／历经艰难／意外怀孕；顺产；难产；在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩；催产 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流产；引起流产 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一个孩子／一个宝宝／一个女儿／一个儿子／一对双胞胎
养育；抚养；教养 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
抚养孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顾小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
换尿布；给婴儿换尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子；给孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂养孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有权利休／正在休产假／陪产假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
产假后回到工作岗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要／找到一个临时保姆／负担得起的高质量儿童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡／兼顾工作与照顾小孩／抚养小孩／家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子；给孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
惩罚／管教／娇惯孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收养小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩给人收养 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代养小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交给寄养父母；由寄养父母抚养
Wordfinder- baby
- birth
- child
- dummy
- feed
- incubator
- nappy
- pram
- premature
- teethe
Topics Life stagesa1- She's not sure if she wants a baby.
她拿不准自己是否想要孩子。 - Can you take the baby while I unlock the door?
我去开门，你能抱一下孩子吗？ - He took an interest in the growing baby even before it was born.
小宝宝出生之前，他就对这个孕育中的孩子产生了兴趣。 - I could feel the baby moving inside me.
我可以感到体内的胎动。 - She lost her baby three months into her pregnancy.
她怀孕 3 个月时流产了。 - The doctor said the baby was growing nicely.
医生说这个宝宝生长发育良好。 - They named the baby Charlie.
他们给孩子起名叫查利。 - Their first baby arrived exactly nine months after the wedding.
他们结婚恰好 9 个月后第一个孩子降生了。 - She decided to put her baby up for adoption.
她决定把自己的孩子送人。 - They would like to adopt a newborn baby.
他们想收养个新生儿。 - Young children and unborn babies are at greatest risk.
幼儿和未出生的婴儿面临的风险最大。 - Premature babies are at increased risk of health problems.
早产儿健康问题的风险增加。 - She rocked the baby to sleep in her arms.
她摇晃着怀里的孩子哄他睡觉。 - The baby cooed happily on the rug.
宝宝在地毯上高兴地喃喃自语。 - He just broke down and cried like a baby.
他禁不住像个孩子似的失声痛哭。 - She's a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies.
她是早产儿重症监护室的助产士。 - The illness is common in newborn babies and is easily treated.
这是新生儿的常见病，很容易治好。 - Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of producing a low birthweight baby.
怀孕期间抽烟会增加婴儿出生时体重偏低的风险。 - After some months, the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto its mother's fur.
几个月以后，幼崽学着抓紧母亲的皮毛在树枝上行走。 - What do you call a baby kangaroo?
你们把袋鼠幼崽叫什么？
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- new
- newborn
- tiny
- …
- have
- want
- conceive
- …
- be due
- arrive
- be born
- …
- boy
- girl
- brother
- …
- sleep like a baby
- The baby's crying!
- (informal) the youngest member of a family or group
（家庭或团体中）最年幼的成员 - He's the baby of the team.
他在队里年纪最小。
- He's the baby of the team.
- (disapproving) a person who behaves like a young child and is easily upset
幼稚的人；孩子气的人 - Stop crying and don't be such a baby.
别哭了，别这么孩子气。
- Stop crying and don't be such a baby.
- (slang, especially North American English) a word used to address somebody, especially your wife, husband or partner, in a way that expresses love but that can be offensive if used by a man to a woman he does not know
宝贝儿，心肝儿（尤用于对爱人的昵称。男子用以称呼不相识的女子则有冒犯之嫌）
词源late Middle English: probably imitative of an infant's first attempts at speech.
Idioms
be your/somebody’s baby
- (informal) to be a plan or project that somebody is responsible for and cares about because they have created it
（计划或项目）就像某人的孩子一样（因亲自制订而尽心负责）
be like taking candy from a baby
- (informal) used to emphasize how easy it is to do something
像从娃娃手里抢糖吃；手到擒来；轻而易举 - I thought it was going to be difficult to get funding for the project, but in the end it was like taking candy from a baby.
我原以为为项目筹集资金会很困难，没想到这么容易，犹如囊中取物。
- I thought it was going to be difficult to get funding for the project, but in the end it was like taking candy from a baby.
leave somebody holding the baby
- (informal) to suddenly make somebody responsible for something important that is really your responsibility
（突然）把重大责任推给某人 - He changed to another job and we were left holding the baby.
他换了工作，把活儿甩给我们。
- He changed to another job and we were left holding the baby.
sleep like a log/baby
- (informal) to sleep very well
沉睡；酣睡 - He was so tired after all his exertions, he slept like a baby.
一番辛苦后他累极了，睡得像婴儿一样沉。 - I usually sleep like a log.
我通常睡得很沉。
- He was so tired after all his exertions, he slept like a baby.
throw the baby out with the bathwater
- (informal) to lose something that you want at the same time as you are trying to get rid of something that you do not want
把婴儿和洗澡水一起倒掉（丢弃不想要的东西的同时失去宝贵的东西）