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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。

Punters and censors alike warm to family films and movies that seem to reflect China's central place in the world.

投资者与审查方对家庭类电影和反映中国的国际中心地位的电影均表示出热情的态度。

If things like this keep happening you have to take points off them. Then the punters will realise the team is going to be punished.

如果这样的事情继续发生，你就应该扣他们的分数。然后看客们就会明白球队会受到惩罚。

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。

Punters are therefore advised to take any outraged statements made by politicians or political commentators with a heavy dose of salt.

建议下赌注者们：切不可相信政治家或政治评论员们的任何刺激性的声明。

Betting exchanges operate somewhat like an eBay for betting, allowing punters to offer odds and then matching them with takers.

赌博交易的运营和eBay有些相似，允许赌客下注赔率，然而与其他投注者进行对比。

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。

One traditional sign of a decade-plus top in a market is the entry of well-financed, but less well-informed punters.

一个传统信号预示着长达10余年的牛市即将见顶：资金充裕但缺乏信息的投机者入场。

Gone, I gather, is much of the public contempt for the Prime Minister: now the punters just feel sorry for Gordon, God help him.

据我推测，许多人都懒得在首相身上下注：赌客们还是离他远点吧，只有上帝才能帮助他。

These "ghosts" , in the industry's jargon, are used to draw in new punters and to help keep existing ones hooked.

用行业术语说就是这些“鬼”，由新的“撑篙人”控制，并一直勾引现实中的人。

Many of the punters appear to have come more for the free food and fun day out than for the vote itself.

许多选民都不是为了投票本身，而是冲着免费美食和出门游玩才去的。

It remains the only place in America where punters can legally bet on sports.

它是美国惟一一个准许在体育上赌博的地方。

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。

Now ARCO is perceived as an afternoon of cultural exposure for Spanish punters rather than a pressing business occasion.

现在ARCO被认为是西班牙的碰运气者的夕阳文化展览而不是重要的商业场合。

While almost everyone agrees that it's the best single GPU card on the market, some punters complained about its price.

虽然几乎所有人都认为这是最好的单GPU卡市场上，一些赌客抱怨它的价格。

As it stands, spreads are tight in currency trading, which presents an attractive proposition for punters.

事实上，外汇交易的价差非常小，这对投机者颇具吸引力。

So far this freedom has helped the local hedge-fund industry, without hurting the punters .

迄今为止，这种自由制度一直在无损于基金客户的前提下，帮助当地对冲基金业成长。

And a report from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch suggested that 50 to 60 per cent of the punters at Resorts World were locals.

美国银行美林证券（BankofAmerica-MerrillLynch）报告称，名胜世界的赌客中，有五至六成是本地人。

The Swiss franc, like the yen a source of low-yielding funds for foreign-exchange punters , is 53% overvalued.

瑞士法郎和日圆一样，对外汇赌客而言是低回报率的货币，其低估率为53%。

Even more incredible, in the current climate, the punters have shown every sign of responding to this quixotic act of defiance.

更不可思议的是在现在的出版气氛下，受众居然还表现出欢迎这种堂吉歌德式的不合时宜。