英和和英

動詞

keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)

1. (sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game.
2. (by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.
   • 1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     Too many of us are attempting to "prove" our manhood by the tired heterosexual method of "keeping score".

   1. (often) To keep track of other people's behaviors and actions, whether they have infringed on the person keeping track, worked at cross purposes, etc: to keep track interpersonally, politically, and in terms of social networking (human interactions of all types, nondigital and digital).
      • 1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame‎ (Usenet):

        i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never "kept score". not ever.

      • 2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta‎ (Usenet):

        I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it "degenerated" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.