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

• Betfair allows punters to bet on football games, and the market stays open throughout the match.
  必发允许下注者对足球比赛下注，市场在比赛期间一直开放。
• 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。
• Almost all the punters were men.
  几乎所有的看车人都是男性。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。