customer
英 [ˈkʌs.tə.mər]
美 [ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ]
将“customer”与“custom”结合记忆。想象顾客(customer)是个“定制”服务的人,他们在享受独特的服务,就像定制自己的衣服一样,这样可以帮助你记住这个词与“顾客”这一概念的关系。
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customer 顾客来自custom, 惯例,海关。原指海关官员,后指买者,顾客。
- customer (n.)
- late 14c., "customs official;" later "buyer" (early 15c.), from Anglo-French custumer, from Medieval Latin custumarius, from Latin consuetudinarius (see custom (n.)). More generalized meaning "a person with whom one has dealings" emerged 1540s; that of "a person to deal with" (usually wth an adjective, tough, etc.) is by 1580s. In Shakespeare, the word also can mean "prostitute."
- 1. In some stores we were undermanned and customer service was suffering.
- 有些店我们人手不足,对顾客照顾不周。
- 2. It does not matter one whit to the customer.
- 这对顾客来说一点关系都没有。
- 3. Several manufacturers are also nibbling away at Ford's traditional customer base.
- 几家制造商也在蚕食福特公司的传统客户群。
- 4. As one former customer said cynically, "He's probably pocketed the difference!"
- 正如一位愤世嫉俗的旧主顾所说的那样,“他很可能把差额塞进了自己的腰包!”
- 5. The owners of the store have stepped up customer mailings.
- 店主们加大了对顾客的邮寄宣传力度。