"keep tabs on" meaning in 英语

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep tabs on.ogg Forms: keeps tabs on, keeping tabs on, kept tabs on
Etymology: 见tab (“用来记录的小板子”)。
  1. 监视,掌握...的动向 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-keep_tabs_on-en-verb-8DRQfrNw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語動詞, 英語詞元

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          "text": "If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.",
          "translation": "(請為本使用例添加中文翻譯)"
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        {
          "text": "The police kept close tabs on him during the holidays.",
          "translation": "(請為本使用例添加中文翻譯)"
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          "ref": "1910, Stewart Edward White, 章號 85, 出自 The Rules of the Game:",
          "text": "He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he could keep tabs on the trails."
        },
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          "ref": "1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, 章號 16, 出自 Rainbow Valley:",
          "text": "I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'll keep tabs on his arguments."
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Andrew Lee Butters, “Why the U.S. Is Back on the Road to Damascus”, 出自 Time:",
          "text": "Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy."
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          "ref": "2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, 出自 The New York Times:",
          "text": "Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs."
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          "text": "Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy."
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