punter

英 [ˈpʌntə(r)]

美 [ˈpʌntər]

n.  顾客; 主顾; 客户; 赌马的人

复数：punters　

Collins.1 / BNC.9016 / COCA.18956

牛津词典

noun

• 顾客；主顾；客户
  a person who buys or uses a particular product or service
  1. It's important to keep the punters happy.
     重要的是让顾客满意。
• 赌马的人
  a person who gambles on the result of a horse race

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.

英英释义

noun

• someone who bets
  Synonym:bettorbetterwagerer
• (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground
• someone who propels a boat with a pole

双语例句

• She was last seen getting into a punter's car at Euston station.
  她最后一次被人看见是在尤斯顿车站坐进一个嫖客的汽车里。
• But they don't. They focus on the intersection of their skills and experience and they focus on being the best punter/ field goal kicker in the game.
  他们专注于技能和经验的交集，他们专注于成为球队中最好的踢球手。
• But at the palace, a floating casino in an ideal spot near the ferry from Hong kong, the carpet is worn, the grimy dining room is empty and on the gambling floors upstairs there is not a single punter.
  但是在王宫，一个移动赌场位于澳港渡口理想位置，地毯磨损、污秽的饭厅空荡荡，楼上的地板上没有空无一人。
• Under the guidance of the Spectral Criticism introduced by David Punter, the existence of "specter" makes a text have some other meanings as well as telling history.
  根据戴维·庞特介绍的幽灵批评理论，幽灵的存在使得文本在诉说历史的同时又具备了其他的意义。
• The average punter at the casino will spend# 200 to# 300 an evening.
  一般赌客在赌场里每晚花200到300英镑。
• 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。
• So rather than bet as a punter, I have owned bookmakers, bingo halls, greyhound tracks and suchlike.
  因此，我并不作为赌客下注，而是拥有了自己的赌注登记经纪人、宾果游戏厅、赛狗场等等。
• 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。
• In a typical year a Vuze user will go to the flicks eight times, whereas the average non-Vuze punter will go out to a movie only six times.
  一年之中Vuze用户平均去电影院看8次电影，而其它被调查者的次数则只有6次。
• Officials are likely to make such determinations in coming days, but until then how worried should the globally mobile punter be?
  政府在未来的几天内可能会进行相关检测，但是在这之前，对此事的严重性，人们到底应该担心到什么程度。