bookies n. 书签;赌本;以赌博为业的人(bookie的复数形式)
- If you are nearly always the bookies' favourite, and have ridiculously short odds against poorer sides, then you have a good reputation.
如果你近乎每场比赛都能是被看好的一方,而且拥有荒诞的针对弱队的赔率,那么你就是拥有好的声望了。 - Instead, the government's independent selection panel chose nearby Manchester, a boomtown of the 1990s that bookies had deemed a rank outsider.
相反,政府的独立选择评判小组选择了靠近曼彻斯特的曾不被赌注登记经纪人们看好的一个1990年代的新兴城市。 - The couple tried to put a bet on just in case but say bookies William Hill refused because the did not have the medical knowledge to offer them odds.
这对夫妇想设定一个赌局以防万一,但是博彩公司威廉希尔拒绝说因为不知道医学知识来给定他们赔率。