bathing

1. N-COUNT A bath is the process of washing your body in a bath. 泡澡

The midwife gave him a warm bath. 助產(chǎn)士給他洗了個溫水澡。

2. N-COUNT When you have a bath, you sit or lie in a bath filled with water in order to wash your body. 盆浴

Have a shower instead of a bath. 別泡澡了，洗淋浴吧。

3. V-T If you bath someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. 給…洗澡[英國英語]

Back home, Shirley plays with, feeds and baths the baby. 回到家里，雪莉逗嬰兒玩，給嬰兒喂飯并洗澡。

4. N-COUNT A bath is a container, usually a long rectangular one, which you fill with water and sit in while you wash your body. 浴缸[英國英語]

...a gigantic pink marble bath. …一個巨大的粉紅色大理石浴缸。

5. V-I When you bath, you have a bath. 洗盆浴[英國英語]

At least 60% of us now bath or shower once a day. 如今我們中至少有60%的人每天洗盆浴或沖淋浴一次。

6. N-COUNT A bath or a baths is a public building containing a swimming pool, and sometimes other facilities that people can use to wash or have a bath. 澡堂

...a thriving town with houses, government buildings and public baths. …一個有住宅、政府辦公樓以及公共澡堂的繁榮城鎮(zhèn)。

7. N-COUNT A bath is a container filled with a particular liquid, such as a dye or an acid, in which particular objects are placed, usually as part of a manufacturing or chemical process. (裝有液體的) 容器

...a developing photograph placed in a bath of fixer. …一張正放在一盆定影液里顯影的照片。