consumer
单词辨析：
指接受专业人士、公司、组织等提供的服务或建议的人。
The client was too poor to pay his lawyer.
委托人太穷了，付不起律师的诉讼费用。
It will enable us to serve our clients even better in the future.
这将使我们以后能更好地服务客户。
The company required the clients to pay a large sum in advance.
公司要求客户提前支付一大笔费用。
指花钱购买商品和服务的人。
Consumers need the best products and the best services.
客户需要最好的产品和服务。
Nowadays, many consumers prefer to shop on the Internet.
如今，许多消费者更愿意在网上购物。
The price increases were passed on by the company to the consumers.
公司把上涨的价格都转嫁到了消费者身上。
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。
Several customers came in and bought the same jackets.
几名顾客走进来买了同样的夹克衫。
The new shop across the street has taken away some of my customers.
街对面新开张的商店挖走了我的一些顾客。
She was a regular customer at the fish market.
她是鱼市上的老主顾。
That school is one of our biggest customers.
那所学校是我们最大的客户之一。
指商品、服务等的使用者，通常为人、企业等。
The new users are satisfied with our products.
这些新用户对我们的产品很满意。
The factory is a big user of electricity in this area.
这家工厂是该地区的一个用电大户。
相关例句：
Most computer ads used to be loaded with technical specifications, virtually unreadable to the average consumer.
以前的大多数电脑广告里都会有很多专业说明，普通消费者几乎看不懂。
The Philips deal also gives Sparc a foot in the door of a new market — consumer electronics.
与飞利浦公司的交易也使斯巴克得以进入一个新市场——消费类电子产品。
Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies
这样的法规可以保护消费者免受有害或者危险药品的威胁。
This is likely to revive consumer spending and a whole raft of consumer industries.
这可能会带动消费性支出和一大批消费工业的复苏。
The Consumer Federation claims banks are ripping you off by not passing along savings on interest rates
消费者联盟声称银行在坑骗客户，因为它们没有把从利率上节省下的钱拿来进行反馈。
New consumer credit fell to$ 3.7 billion in August.
8月份新增消费信贷降至37亿美元。