client

noun

1. 委托人；当事人
   a person who uses the services or advice of a professional person or organization
   1. a lawyer with many famous clients
      拥有许多著名委托人的律师
   2. to act on behalf of a client
      代表当事人
   3. Social workers must always consider the best interests of their clients.
      社会工作者必须时刻考虑其当事人的最佳利益。
2. （连接在服务器上的）客户机
   a computer that is linked to a server

1. N-COUNT 客户;顾客；委托人
   A client of a professional person or organization is a person or company that receives a service from them in return for payment.
   1. ...a solicitor and his client...
      律师和他的委托人
   2. The company required clients to pay substantial fees in advance.
      公司要求客户预付一大笔费用。

If you use the professional services of someone such as a lawyer or an accountant, you are one of their clients. When you buy goods from a particular shop or company, you are one of its customers. Doctors and hospitals have patients, while hotels have guests. People who travel on public transport are referred to as passengers.
接受律师、会计师等的专业服务的人就是他们的client(委托人);从某个商店或公司购买商品的人就是他们的customer(顾客)。医生、医院接待patients(病人)，旅馆接待guests(客人)。乘公共交通工具的人叫做passengers(乘客)。

1. There is normally no refund should a client choose to cancel.
   客户若要取消服务，通常不予退款。
2. The company required clients to pay substantial fees in advance.
   公司要求客户预付一大笔费用。
3. When her deal is done, the client emerges with her purchase.
   交易完成后，委托人会出现并将她购买的东西交给她。
4. 'It is clear that my client has been less than frank with me,' said his lawyer
   “很明显我的委托人对我不够坦白，”他的律师说。
5. He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge
   他可能已经被以前的客户或某个对他怀恨在心的人谋杀了。
6. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
   她站在门口，听他喋喋不休地抱怨她的客户。
7. Mr Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client
   米尔纳先生说服联邦检察官不把他的当事人关起来。
8. My lord, I am instructed by my client to claim that the evidence has been tampered with.
   法官大人，本人受当事人委托，主张此证据已被人篡改。
9. If anyone wants me, I'm at lunch with a client.
   有人找我，就说我在跟客户吃午餐。
10. I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
    我对我的当事人负有道义上的责任。
11. When the client was murdered, his wife took the rap, but did she really do it?
    当那名客户被谋杀后，他妻子背上了黑锅，然而真是她杀的吗？
12. Now and then I referred a client to him.
    我不时地介绍客户给他。
13. He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork.
    他安排直接向顾客收取费用，免去了顾客填写各种文件的麻烦。
14. He stood up, signalling to the officer that he had finished with his client
    他站起身，向警察示意他和他的当事人已经谈完了。
15. Each client's portfolio is tailor-made.
    每位客户的投资组合都是量身打造的。
16. We have had to ask the agency and their client to tone their ads down.
    我们不得不要求广告公司及其客户将他们的广告处理得低调些。
17. The lawyer had concrete evidence of his client's innocence.
    律师掌握了他的当事人无罪的确实证据。
18. A lawyer acts on behalf of his client.
    律师作为当事人的代言人。
19. She can't come to the telephone, she's serving a client.
    她不能来接电话，她正在接待一位顾客。
20. The data LUNs had already been assigned to the VIOS and mapped and configured on the client LPAR.
    这些数据LUN早已被分配给了VIOS并已在客户机LPAR上进行了映射和配置。
21. This is a Java client that communicates using a database independent protocol.
    这是一个Java客户机，使用独立于数据库的协议进行通信。
22. Now the client and server can communicate securely using SSL.
    现在客户端和服务器可以使用SSL进行通信了。
23. You then developed a Twitter Web client, which demonstrates how OAuth works seamlessly with Web browsers.
    您随后开发了一个TwitterWeb客户机，它演示了OAuth如何与Web浏览器无缝工作。
24. Figure 1 shows the interaction between the server and the client.
    图1展示了客户端和服务器端的交互。
25. Up to this point, I have only discussed a new web service and an old client.
    到这里为止，我只是讨论了新Web服务和旧客户端。
26. Reusing static content from the cache greatly improves client performance, reducing both bandwidth consumed and server CPU cycles.
    重用缓存中的静态内容大大改善了客户端性能，减少了带宽消耗和服务器CPU周期。
27. TCP/ IP works by having a client socket and a server socket.
    TCP/IP获得一个客户端套接字和一个服务器套接字。
28. Using this session key, client and server can safely communicate with each other.
    使用此会话密钥，客户端和服务器可以安全地相互通信。
29. This will test all the three ( server, client, and group membership lookup) plug-ins.
    这次将测试所有三个（服务器、客户机和组成员查找）插件。
30. An IRC system has two components: a server and a client.
    IRC系统由两部分组成：服务器和客户机。

  client consumer customer user【导航词义：顾客】

  client n. 客户，委托人

〔辨析〕指接受专业人士、公司、组织等提供的服务或建议的人。

  consumer n. 消费者，用户

〔辨析〕指花钱购买商品和服务的人。

  customer n. 顾客，主顾

〔辨析〕普通用词，含义较笼统，多指从某一商场或公司购买东西的人或机构。

  user n. 用户

〔辨析〕指商品、服务等的使用者，通常为人、企业等。

noun

1. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

   Synonym:    nodeguest

2. someone who pays for goods or services

   Synonym:    customer

3. a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer