salesmanship 的词源

“（好）销售员的特征或品质”，1853年，来源于 salesman + -ship。

The modern system of salesmanship has become so much like persecution reduced to a science, that it is quite a luxury to be allowed the use of your own discretion, without being dragooned, by a shopkeeper's deputy, into looking at what you do not care to see, or buying what you would not have. A man in his sane mind, with the usual organs of speech, has a right to be treated as if he knows what he wants, and is able to ask for it. [The Literary World, Feb. 26, 1853]

现代销售制度已经变得像是将迫害科学化，能够自由使用自己的判断，免受店员强迫去看自己不想看的东西或购买不需要的东西，简直是一种奢侈。一个理智的人，拥有正常的语言能力，理应被视为知道自己想要什么，并能够提出要求。[《文学世界》，1853年2月26日]