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

• The sell-off could be exacerbated as mutual funds dump their holdings to meet redemption demands from punters who treat them more like speculative stocks than long-term investments.
  如果共同基金卖出所持股份来满足投资者的赎回需求，抛售很可能还会加剧。在这些投资者眼中，共同基金更像是投机性股票，而不是长期投资。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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 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。