tabs
A tab is a small piece of cloth or paper that is attached to something, usually with information about that thing written on it.
A clerk had slipped the wrong tab on Tony's X-ray.
一位职员失手把一个错误的标签贴到了托尼的X光片上。
A tab is the total cost of goods or services that you have to pay, or the bill for those goods or services.
At least one estimate puts the total tab at $7 million.
至少有一种估算方法得出总价达700万美元。
keep tabs on someone
If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
It was obvious Hill had come over to keep tabs on Johnson and make sure he didn't do anything drastic.
显然,希尔是来严密监视约翰逊的,以确保他不做什么过激的事。
pick up the tab
If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
Pollard picked up the tab for dinner that night.
波拉德为那天的晚宴付了账。