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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That has drawn in millions of retail punters, who have been opening new trading accounts at a record pace.
  股市上涨引来了数以百万计的散户，新开交易账户的速度创下新高。
• H-share offerings this year in Hong Kong are down an average of 12 per cent, a far cry from the heady days of 2006 and 2007 when punters expected to double their money on first-day dealings.
  今年香港H股的发行规模平均下降了12%，这与2006年和2007年的鼎盛时期相去甚远，当时的客户都指望能在首日交易中赚到一倍的利润。
• But while punters are returning to the tables as the economy recovers, they are still betting less than before.
  但尽管随着经济复苏，赌客们已开始重返赌台，他们玩得还是比以前小了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。