But shop owners say now they only see "essential customers" those who have to buy for the marriage of a son or a daughter.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

I'm not going to name any company or industries, because they're all our customers and they'd be upset.

我在这里就不说它们的名字了，因为它们都是我们的客户，都会因此而沮丧。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

The first phase required them to identify a customer that was not well-served by Merril Lynch, or perhaps a new customer and to profile those customers in terms of their risk and investment profits.

第一个是要求他们找到,未受到美林良好服务的顾客，或者是一个新顾客,并且根据风险和,投资利润对顾客分组。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Banks will no longer be allowed to own,invest or sponsor hedge funds, private equity funds or proprietary trading operations for their own profit, unrelated to serving their customers,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

And what happened is, over a 30-year or so period, the industry really shifted to be one where industry standards started to come into play, the customers started to have a bigger role.

经过了30年左右，这个行业发生了变化,出现了产业标准，消费者的角色也越来越重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Responding to consumer complaints, even Apple has decided to get into the recycling business, offering gift cards or discounts to customers who bring in select used electronics for recycling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Computer programmers already have created thousands of applications for the iPad that will allow customers to perform many other tasks previously done on regular laptops or on mobile phones.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03