punters

the punters, mostly young technophile men, bought the games from a shop, played them for a few weeks and then put them away.

那些投资者大部分是年轻的技术爱好者，他们从商店中购买游戏，打上几个星期，然后将它们置于一边。

if mr brown's campaign was inventive, ms coakley's was tepid and prone to gaffes. no glad-handing the punters for this attorney-general.

如果布朗的竞选很有创造力，而科克利的不冷不热且总是出丑，支持者不会与这位检察长微笑握手。

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。