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

• Almost all the punters were men.
  几乎所有的看车人都是男性。
• 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。
• Domestic Chinese shares have been driven by millions of new retail punters, many of whom believe the government will underwrite the rally with rate cuts and other liquidity-boosting measures.
  内地股票价格受到了数百万新增散户的影响。许多散户认为，政府将以降息等提高流动性的措施为股市上涨背书。
• It is certainly not fundamentals that keep punters coming.
  推动买盘的肯定不是基本面因素。
• 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。
• 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。
• We want to be helpful to the punters, and sometimes they've got to be helpful with us.
  我们希望能够帮助我们的投资人，而我们也希望他们能够时而给予我们帮助。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。