punters

英 [ˈpʌntəz]

美 [ˈpʌntərz]

n.  顾客; 主顾; 客户; 赌马的人
punter的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 赌博者；（尤指）赌马者
  Apunteris a person who bets money, especially on horse races.
  1. Punters are expected to gamble £70m on the Grand National.
     预计众多赌马者会在国家大马赛上下注7,000万英镑。
• N-COUNT 顾客；客人
  People sometimes refer to their customers or clients aspunters.
  1. Should anyone attack the stripper, the punters know that it is likely to be the end of the show.
     如果有人侵犯脱衣舞表演者，客人们就知道表演可能要结束了。
• 弃踢手；踢悬空球的人
  In American football, apunteris someone who kicks the ball by punting it.

双语例句

• Mr Thompson added that the fund would offer one-day punters the opportunity to invest on a longer term basis.
  汤普森还表示，这种基金能为那些一日投资者提供更长期投资的机会。
• In reality, though, easier money means more leverage for punters, which means higher prices only as long as the froth lasts.
  但在现实中，资金宽松意味着投机者会加大杠杆，这意味着只要泡沫持续下去，股价就肯定会上涨。
• The newspaper editor claimed that she always tries to give the punters what they want.
  报纸编辑声称她总是给读者提供他们要看的东西。
• Some stock market analysts say this kind of talk creates a self-perpetuating cycle where punters bet on what the government will do next, rather than on fundamentals.
  一些股市分析师表示，这种言论构成一个自我实现的循环，股民依靠揣摩政府的下一步动向来进行决策，而非考虑基本面。
• This time uneducated punters may be right& at least for a while.
  这一次，业余炒股者可能是正确的&至少在一段时间内如此。
• Flint revealed that the company has been taking on new marketing and technical staff in order to power the initiative, developing new ways to make Sky's offering more accessible to punters.
  弗林特透露，该公司已采取新的营销和技术人员，以权力的积极性，发展的新途径，使天空的投注者提供更方便。
• But then again, people have been writing book reviews on Amazon for years for nothing – and punters can always say no. With perhaps a few lucky exceptions, the crowdsourcing model is unlikely to provide many crowd members with full-time employment.
  但再想想，多年来，人们一直免费为亚马逊撰写书评而顾问还总是拥有否决权。除了一些幸运的例外情况，众包模式不太可能为很多参与者提供全职工作。
• Almost all the punters were men.
  几乎所有的看车人都是男性。
• Punters queued outside the cinema for two hours to get tickets for the film.
  观众在电影院外面排了两小时队买这部电影的票。
• There are also widespread lottery programmes, to which state treasuries have grown just as addicted as working-class punters.
  还有流行甚广的彩票项目&各州财政也慢慢变得和工人阶级彩民一样沉溺于彩票。