keep an account

基本解释

Keep an account of what you spend.
你的花费都要记帐。
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Keep an account of your daily activities.
把你的日常活动记录下来。
Probably in order to teach me to be careful my father placed a little small change in my charge and required me to keep an account of it.
也许是为了教我学会小心谨慎，父亲交给我一些零钱，叫我管理，并且要求我记账。

In practice, they accept special offers to members of a loyalty club, or to people who book tickets early or keep a big balance on an account.
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That led to some fraud by Warshak, his mother, and his company, TCI Media, to get new banks to give them an account to keep charging new, unsuspecting customers.
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So next time, when you lose an account and a reporter calls for a statement, keep calm and be gracious.
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