Reader's Digest 12/1月合併号の記事 'The Life Saver on Dad's Computer Screen' から引用します。
Arlyn's house was a 40-minute drive from the cottage, and she had been relying on a patchwork of technology to keep tabs on her dad. She set an open laptop on the counter so she could chat with him on Skype. She installed a camera in his kitchen and another in his bedroom so she could check whether he had fallen.
"keep tabs on" ですが、その後の文にSkypeとか観察用のカメラの事が出てくるので、言葉は悪いけれど監視するの意味の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: to keep a check on; follow or watch every move of: I don't know where she was headed after that - we don't keep tabs on our guests.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To routinely monitor or observe someone or something; to keep track of someone or something. It was revealed that the FBI kept tabs on him for years just because he once attended a meeting of a radical group.
この "keep tabs on" は日産のカルロス・ゴーン元会長に関する記事にも出ていました。（Automotive News Jan.21, 2019）
Ghosn pledged to surrender his passport, stay in Japan, confine himself to an apartment in Tokyo and even hire a private security detail approved by prosecutors to keep tabs on him.
Arlyn's house was a 40-minute drive from the cottage, and she had been relying on a patchwork of technology to keep tabs on her dad. She set an open laptop on the counter so she could chat with him on Skype. She installed a camera in his kitchen and another in his bedroom so she could check whether he had fallen.
"keep tabs on" ですが、その後の文にSkypeとか観察用のカメラの事が出てくるので、言葉は悪いけれど監視するの意味の様です。辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: to keep a check on; follow or watch every move of: I don't know where she was headed after that - we don't keep tabs on our guests.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To routinely monitor or observe someone or something; to keep track of someone or something. It was revealed that the FBI kept tabs on him for years just because he once attended a meeting of a radical group.
この "keep tabs on" は日産のカルロス・ゴーン元会長に関する記事にも出ていました。（Automotive News Jan.21, 2019）
Ghosn pledged to surrender his passport, stay in Japan, confine himself to an apartment in Tokyo and even hire a private security detail approved by prosecutors to keep tabs on him.
トータル
