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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 Having a baby/child 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
Parenting 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
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa1She'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？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- new
- newborn
- tiny
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- have
- want
- conceive
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- be due
- arrive
- be born
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- boy
- girl
- brother
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- sleep like a baby
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the youngest member of a family or group （家庭或团体中）最年幼的成员 - (disapproving)
a person who behaves like a young child and is easily upset 幼稚的人；孩子气的人 - (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）
Word Originlate Middle English: probably imitative of an infant's first attempts at speech.
Idioms
be your/somebody’s baby
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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
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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。
leave somebody holding the baby
sleep like a log/baby
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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。
throw the baby out with the bathwater
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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）