要帐 meaning in English
demand payment of a debt; press for repayment of a loan; dun
Examples
- Upon request of the guest , server asks the guest check to the cashier
客人要求结账时，服务员向收银员要帐单。 - When it occurred a second time , however , it did not seem quite so strange . butcher and grocery man , baker and coal man - not the group with whom he was then dealing , but those who had trusted him to the limit - called
等到第二次又发生这样的事时，似乎就不那么奇怪了肉铺食品店面包房和煤炭店的老板们-不是他正在打交道的那些人，而是那些曾最大限度地赊帐给他的人-上门要帐了。