我们在用英语表达"照顾"时，常常会用到care about或take care of，这两个短语在具体含义和用法上是存在区别的，具体如下：
一：含义解释
care about 英 [keə(r) əˈbaʊt] 美 [ker əˈbaʊt] v. 关心;在意
take care of 英 [teɪk keə(r) ɒv] 美 [teɪk ker əv] 照顾，照料;爱护;负责，处理;支付
相同点：都可以表示照顾
不同点：care about：表示操心、关心之类；take care of：是比较广义的照顾。
二：用法区分
take care of：care作“在乎，介意，关心”解时还可用作不及物动词，后面常跟介词about或for引导的短语。care只有在答句中、含有情态动词时、if从句中或定语从句中才可用于肯定句。
care about：care用作及物动词作“在乎”“介意”“关心”解时，后面常跟that/wh-或if/whether引导的从句，作“愿意”解时，后面常跟动词不定式，一般多用于疑问句、否定句或条件句中，也可用于含有怀疑或不确定意味的半否定句中，但不用于意思十分确切的肯定句中。
三：典型例句
1、care about
——He doesn't bloody care about anybody else.
他根本不关心别人。
——It's precisely because I care about you that I don't like you staying out late.
正因为我关心你，我才不要你太晚回家。
——Joe Sixpack doesn't care about that.
普通工人不在意那事。
2、take care of
——He's well able to take care of himself.
他完全能够自理。
——I'll take care of that side of things.
事情的那方面由我来处理。
——When my parents were away, my grandmother would take care of me.
我父母外出的时候，总是祖母照看我。
"Care about"表示关心、在意、重视，通常用于表达情感、态度、看法等。例如：
I really care about my family.（我非常关心我的家人。）
She doesn't care about what other people think of her.（她不关心别人对她的看法。）
"Take care of"则表示照顾、照料、处理、解决等，通常用于具体的行动或任务。例如：
Can you take care of the kids while I'm out?（我出去一下，你能照顾一下孩子吗？）
He always takes care of his work before anything else.（他总是先处理好工作再做其他事情。）
因此，"care about"和"take care of"的区别在于，前者是表达情感、态度、看法等，后者是具体的行动或任务。需要根据具体语境来选择使用哪个短语。
1. I'll take care of it.
我来办这件事。
2. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
这儿是一家照顾精神病患者和赤贫人员的收容所。
3. I pick up a leaflet about the care of teeth.
我拿起一张宣传保护牙齿的传单。
4. The girl was committed to the care of an aunt.
这女孩被交给姨母照顾。
5. Take care of getting pneumonia.
小心得肺炎。
care about:关心
1. The children behave badly, but the guilt lies with the parents, who don't care about their behaviour.
孩子们行为不端，但是这应归罪于他们的父母，他们不关心子女的行为。
2. I don't care about the price, so long as the car is in good condition.
我不计较价钱，只要车很好用就行了。
3. I don't care about money.
我不看重钱。
4. Don't you care about this country's future?
难道你不为国家前途担忧吗?
5. She does not care about her husband at all.
她根本不关心她的丈夫。
care for: 喜欢， 介意
1. You should take care of your niece for the sake of your sister.
看在姐妹的份上，你应该照顾你的侄女。
2. How she manages to tear around from one social function to another and take care of her family at the same time is more than I can understand.
我真不明白，她怎么能够从一个社交场合到另一个社交场合，忙个不停，同时又能照料好家务。
3. I'd rather take care of the stomachs of the living than (take care of) the glory of the dead in the form of stone memorials.
我宁愿照顾活人的肚子，也不愿以石碑的形式来照顾死者的荣耀。
4. How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the would, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
样样事情由大自然安排得多么漂亮啊——孩子刚一踏进了这世界就找到母亲给他照料的嘛。
5. He's old enough to take care of himself.
他大了，能照顾自己了。
care about关心在意