punters

英 [ˈpʌntəz]

美 [ˈpʌntərz]

n.  顾客; 主顾; 客户; ***的人
punter的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 赌博者；（尤指）***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***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

• 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。
• It may once have been possible for businesses to see themselves grandly at the centre of a marketplace, dispensing goods and services to grateful punters.
  对企业而言，它们可能曾发现，自己处于市场中心，向心怀感激的顾客分发商品和服务。
• 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。
• Some of these attractions remain undimmed. But they are no longer enough to bring in the punters.
  这些卖点部分仍保留下来，但已不再足以招徕顾客。
• An end to such ramping will chase out most retail punters: roughly half of all IPO shares, or 70 per cent of those allotted to retail, are sold on day one, according to brokers CLSA.
  结束这种爆炒，将把大部分散户投机者赶走：券商里昂证券（CLSA）的数据显示，首次公开发行的股票中，大约有一半（或者说散户申购到的70%）在上市第一天就被抛出。
• But the punters do know that prices are going through the roof, and it's getting harder and harder to buy into the housing market.
  然而有一点是确定无疑的：房价已经涨得非常离谱了，要进入房市也越来越难了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。