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baby boomer
Ji? 3 (/n/omw/) .an
attractive young woman 有魅力的 年轻女争.E3Ei.a ,babe in
'arms (old-fashioned) a very small baby
that cannot yet walk 權褓 + 的婴儿 一 more at mouth n.
babel /'beibl/ noun [sing.] (formal) the sound of many
voices talking at one time, especially when more than one languages being
spoken 嘈杂_(尤指讲多种语
言）..酬From the Bible story
in which God punished the people who were trying to build a tower to reach
heaven (the tower of Babel) by making them unable to understand each others’
languages.源自'.《圣 经》故事。世人拟建造通天的巴别塔（thetower of
,babes in the 'wood noun [pi.] innocent people who are easily tricked or harmed ‘稚易受骗的人;奐受伤害
的人 剛I From a children’s
story about a boy and a
girl who are left alone in
a wood where they die and a bird covers them with leaves•源自童话，一双男女孩童
被弃于森林中。孩子死后，一只鸟衔来树叶将其掩埋。
ba-boon /ba'buin; NAmEbae'b-/ noun a large African or
Asian monkey with a long
face like a dog’s 狒狒 babu /'ba:bu:/ noun [lnd£) a person who works in
an office办公室职员;白领
ba-bushka /ba'buXka; 'baebuj'ka/ noun (from Russian)
1
a Russian old woman or
grandmother (俄罗斯■) 老太婆，_ 母，外婆 2a traditional Russian
woman’s headscarf, tied
under the chin 婆婆头巾'（传统俄罗斯 头巾，在颏下打结.）
baby ^ /'beibi/
noun, adj., verb m noun {pi. -ies) 1 a very young child
or animal -^JL;动 物幼崽：The baby’s crying/ 婴儿在哭！ ◊
a newborn baby 新生儿◊ My sister’s
expecting a baby.我姐姐怀 孕 f。O She had a baby year.她去年生了个孩子。
◊ a baby
boy/girt 男婴；女婴◊
baby/ootl/c丨othes 參)L 食品/服装◊ a baby monfcey/Wacfcbird幼猴；黑鹂维
2
{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 〇/the team•他吾队里年纪最小。3 (d/sopprav/ng) 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 £>aby. 别哭了，别这么孩于气 t 4 (s/flng, AM/T7E) a
word used to address sb,
especially your wife, husband or lover, in a way that expresses affection but
that can be offensive if used by a man to a woman he does not know (对爱人的昵称。男子用以称呼不相识的女子则
有冒犯之嫌H宝贝儿，心肝儿D3E1 be your/sb’s
baby (informal) to be a plan or
project that sb 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）'丨eave sb ho丨ding the 'baby (//7/〇/77?<7/) .to suddenly make sb
responsible for sth 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。throw the baby out
with the 'bathwater {informal) to lose sth that you
want at the same time as you are trying to get rid of sth that you do not want把婴儿和洗澡水一起倒掉一more at CANDY, SLEEP V.
e adj. [only before noun] baby vegetables are a
very small version of particular vegetables, or are picked when they are very
small (蔬菜 > 小型的，幼嫩的：baby carrots小胡旁卜
■
verb (ba bies, baby ing, ba bied, ba bied) [VN] to treat sb with too
much care, as if they were a baby 婴儿般对
待；百般呵护
,baby 'blue very
pale blue in coloui•婴儿蓝的；淡
蓝色的► ,baby 'b丨ue [U]
'baby blues noun [pi.] (informal) a depressed feeling that some women get after
the birth of a baby 产.后抑郁
POST-NATAL DEPRESSION
'baby boom noun a period when many
more babies are bom than usual 生育高峰（期）：..._
'baby boomer (NAmE also boom-er) noun a person born during a baby boom,
especially after the Second World War (尤指第二次世界大战后）生育高峰期出生
的人