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a very young child or animal 嬰兒；動物幼崽 The baby's crying! 嬰兒在哭！ a newborn baby 新生兒 My sister's expecting a baby (= she is pregnant). 我姐姐懷孕了。 She had a baby last year. 她去年生了個孩子。 The baby was born last night. 嬰兒是昨晚出生的。 Mother and baby are doing well. 母子平安。 The baby is due in October. 寶寶將在 10 月份出生。 The baby was delivered by a midwife. 這孩子是助産士接生的。 a baby boy/girl 男嬰；女嬰 a baby daughter/son/sister/brother 小女兒/兒子/妹妹/弟弟 baby food/clothes 嬰兒食品／服裝 a baby monkey/blackbird 幼猴；黑鹂雛
Collocations ChildrenChildren 孩子 Having a baby/child 懷孕 - 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
懷孕 - miss your period
月經未按期來 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
懷孕了；發現懷孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一個寶寶／一個孩子／孩子／一個兒子／一個女兒／一對雙胞胎／孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常／歷經艱難／意外懷孕；順産；難産；在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩；催産 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流産；引起流産 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一個孩子／一個寶寶／一個女兒／一個兒子／一對雙胞胎
Parenting 養育；撫養；教養 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
撫養孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顧小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
換尿布；給嬰兒換尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子；給孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂養孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有權利休／正在休産假／陪産假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
産假後回到工作崗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要／找到一個臨時保姆／負擔得起的高質量兒童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡／兼顧工作與照顧小孩／撫養小孩／家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子；給孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
懲罰／管教／嬌慣孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收養小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩給人收養 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代養小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交給寄養父母；由寄養父母撫養
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa1She's not sure if she wants a baby. 她拿不準自己是否想要孩子。 Can you take the baby while I unlock the door? 我去開門，你能抱一下孩子嗎？ He took an interest in the growing baby even before it was born. 小寶寶出生之前，他就對這個孕育中的孩子産生了興趣。 I could feel the baby moving inside me. 我可以感到體内的胎動。 She lost her baby three months into her pregnancy. 她懷孕 3 個月時流産了。 The doctor said the baby was growing nicely. 醫生說這個寶寶生長發育良好。 They named the baby Charlie. 他們給孩子起名叫查利。 Their first baby arrived exactly nine months after the wedding. 他們結婚恰好 9 個月後第一個孩子降生了。 She decided to put her baby up for adoption. 她決定把自己的孩子送人。 They would like to adopt a newborn baby. 他們想收養個新生兒。 Young children and unborn babies are at greatest risk. 幼兒和未出生的嬰兒面臨的風險最大。 Premature babies are at increased risk of health problems. 早産兒健康問題的風險增加。 She rocked the baby to sleep in her arms. 她搖晃着懷裏的孩子哄他睡覺。 The baby cooed happily on the rug. 寶寶在地毯上高興地喃喃自語。 He just broke down and cried like a baby. 他禁不住像個孩子似的失聲痛哭。 She's a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies. 她是早産兒重症監護室的助産士。 The illness is common in newborn babies and is easily treated. 這是新生兒的常見病，很容易治好。 Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of producing a low birthweight baby. 懷孕期間抽煙會增加嬰兒出生時體重偏低的風險。 After some months, the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto its mother's fur. 幾個月以後，幼崽學着抓緊母親的皮毛在樹枝上行走。 What do you call a baby kangaroo? 你們把袋鼠幼崽叫什麽？
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 （家庭或團體中）最年幼的成員 - (disapproving)
a person who behaves like a young child and is easily upset 幼稚的人；孩子氣的人 - (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 寶貝兒，心肝兒（尤用於對愛人的暱稱。男子用以稱呼不相識的女子則有冒犯之嫌）
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 （計劃或項目）就像某人的孩子一樣（因親自制訂而盡心負責）
be like taking candy from a baby
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used to emphasize how easy it is to do something 像從娃娃手裏搶糖吃；手到擒來；輕而易舉 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. 我原以爲爲項目籌集資金會很困難，沒想到這麽容易，猶如囊中取物。
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. 一番辛苦後他累極了，睡得像嬰兒一樣沉。 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 把嬰兒和洗澡水一起倒掉（丢棄不想要的東西的同時失去寶貴的東西）