customer

英 ['kʌstəmə(r)] 美 ['kʌstəmər]

• n. 顾客；主顾；<口>家伙

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]顾客,主顾

   a person who buys things from a shop

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. （老）顾客，主顾，客户，买主，客人，用户，储户
2. <口>家伙，小子，人
3. 观众，听众

英英释义

Noun:

1. someone who pays for goods or services

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. My father asked me to see the customer to the door.
   我父亲要我送顾客到门口。
2. The new store across the road has taken away most of my customers.
   路那边的那家新店抢走了我的许多主顾。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. She's rather a tricky customer to do business with.
   她是个很难打交道的滑头家伙。
2. What sort of a customer is he?
   他是个什么样的人?
3. These goods enjoy growing favour among the customers.
   这些货物越来越受顾客的欢迎。
4. That shopkeeper cheats his customers.
   那个店主欺骗顾客。
5. We should tend on customers warmly.
   我们应该热情招待顾客。
6. To save customers' time, they began a delivery service.
   为了节省顾客的时间,他们实行送货上门。
7. We must be responsible to customers.
   我们必须对我们的顾客负责。
8. Bargaining can go on the whole day, or even several days, with the customers coming and going at intervals.
   讨价还价可以进行一整天,甚至进行好几天,买主则时来时往。
9. There have only been six customers in the shop today.
   今天店里就来了六位顾客。
10. The new shop across the road has taken away most of my customers.
    马路对面那家新开的商店把我的大部分顾客都抢走了。
11. The drinks were produced in response to customer demand.
    这种新饮料是按顾客的要求生产的。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• attract customers 吸引顾客
• draw customers 招引顾客
• increase customers 增多顾客
• lose customers 减少顾客
• please customers 取悦于顾客
• treat one's customers fairly 公平对待顾客
• win customers 赢得顾客

形容词+～

• casual customer 偶尔光临的顾客
• chance customer 偶然光顾的顾客
• hard customer 难对付的人
• old customer 老顾客
• potential customer 潜在顾客
• regular customer 老主顾
• rough customer 粗暴的人

名词+～

• credit customer 赊购的顾客
• woman customer 女顾客

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. customer的基本意思是“顾客”,指具体的人,是可数名词,可加不定冠词或数词修饰,有复数形式。引申可指“人”“家伙”。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

customer, guest, shopper

• 这三个词都是“顾客”的意思。其区别是：
• guest指旅馆、饭店等的顾客; shopper指商店里的顾客; customer则是针对某一商店而言的顾客。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪进入英语，直接源自盎格鲁法语的custumer；最初源自拉丁语的consuetudinarius，意为与之打交道的人。

近反义词

【近义词】

• buyer
• client
• consumer
• patron