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

• 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。
• 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。
• When Stephen Hester, head of Royal Bank of Scotland, was photographed on a recent Sunday leaving the Treasury in jeans and an extraordinary beige gilet with suede patches on the shoulders, the punters did not like it.
  最近的一个周日，苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）的一把手斯蒂芬•赫斯特（StephenHester）被拍到离开财政部时身穿牛仔裤和一件怪里怪气的米色背心，肩膀上还打着绒面革补丁。
• Retail punters account for 80-90 per cent of trading.
  散户投资者占到中国股市成交量的80%至90%。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Three Punters 'Club members insist they have nothing to hide.
  俱乐部的三名成员则坚称他们没什么可遮掩的。