tab 标签,签条可能来自 tag,标签,记号。拼写比较 ruby,rouge.
- tab (n.1)
- "small flap or strip of material," c. 1600, possibly from a dialectal word, of uncertain origin. Often interchangeable with tag (n.1). Compare also Middle English tab "strap or string" (mid-15c.), Norwegian dialectal tave "piece of cloth, rag."
- tab (n.2)
- "account, bill, check," 1888, American English colloquial, probably a shortened form of tabulation or of tablet in the sense "a sheet for writing on." Figurative phrase keep a tab on is recorded from 1890.
- tab (n.3)
- 1961, shortened form of tablet (especially one of sugar containing LSD). As an abbreviation of tabloid (newspaper) it is 1990s slang. As a short form of tabulator key of a typewriter (later computer) it is recorded from 1916.
- tab (v.)
- "designate, label, name," 1924, earlier "affix a tab to" 1872 (implied in tabbed), perhaps an alteration of tag (v.2). Related: Tabbing. Also see tab (n.1).
- 1. At least one estimate puts the total tab at $7 million.
- 至少有一个估价把总数定在了700万美元。
- 2. A stupid medical clerk had slipped the wrong tab on his X-ray.
- 一个蠢笨的医护人员一不留神在他的X光片上贴错了标签。
- 3. Pollard picked up the tab for dinner that night.
- 那天的晚饭是波拉德掏的钱。
- 4. One tab of Ecstasy costs at least £15.
- 一粒摇头丸至少卖15英镑。
- 5. Hang your coat up by the tab on the collar.
- 用衣服上的领襻把上衣挂起来.