tab1 /tæb/ noun [countableC]2 money that you owe 所欠的錢PAY FOR an amount of money that you owe, or a record of an amount of money that you owe 賬款;賬目The tab for the campaign was nearly $500 million. 活動的費用將近5億美元。
I’ll put it on your tab and you can pay tomorrow. 我把它記在你賬上,你可以明天付錢。
He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls. 他打了4,000美元的長途電話。
► see thesaurus at bill 3 pick up the tab PAY FORto pay for something, especially when it is not your responsibility to pay 〔尤指代他人〕付賬,承擔費用Taxpayers will pick up the tab for the stadium. 納稅人將承擔建造體育館的費用。
pick up the tab• We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.• When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.• Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.• Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.• Thus, port officials argue, the city should have picked up the tab for fixing the recently revealed environmental problems.• I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.• Normally, developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab.• He wouldn't pick up the tab for anyone else.• Airlines will have to pick up the tab for new safety regulations.• In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses. 4 to open 打開 b) a small piece of metal, plastic, or paper that you pull to open something 〔用於開啓某物的金屬、塑料或紙制的〕拉片,拉手 5 small piece of paper/plastic etc 一小片紙/塑料等D a small piece of paper, cloth, plastic etc that sticks out from the edge of something, so that you can find it more easily 〔凸出於某物邊緣、方便查找的〕標簽,檢索凸舌an index tab labeled ‘Expenses’ 標着“支出”字樣的檢索標簽
6. (also license tab) a small piece of sticky plastic with a date on it that you put on your car’s license plate in the US to show that the car is legally allowed on the road 〔在美國允許車輛合法上路的〕車牌標貼 7 keep (close) tabs on somebody/something informalWATCH to watch someone or something carefully to check what they are doing 密切注意某人/某事物,監視某人的一舉一動The police have been keeping tabs on Rogers since he got out of prison. 自從羅傑斯出獄以來,警察一直在嚴密監視他。
8 drug 毒品 informalMDD a form of the illegal drug LSD or ecstasy 〔迷幻藥等毒品的〕丸,片 9. cigarette 香煙 British EnglishBrE informalDFT a cigarette 香煙 n10 Internet one of a number of web pages you have open at the same timeDo you want to close all tabs or the current tab?