mail-order 的詞源
mail-order(adj.)
1875年,源自 mail(n.1)和 order。在電視和互聯網出現之前,它是零售商和店主的噩夢。
The origin, foundation and principle of mail order trading is universally recognized as wrong. It was conceived in iniquity and brought forth in despair as the world's greatest destructive medium. Mail Order Trading was born in the brain of knaves and thieves who fired their building for insurance profits, then sold the salvaged and damaged stock to the unsuspecting sons of man in distant territory. [Thomas J. Sullivan, "Merchants and Manufacturers on Trial," Chicago, 1914]
郵購貿易的起源、基礎和原則被普遍認爲是錯誤的。它是在不義之中孕育而生,是世界上最具破壞性的媒介。郵購貿易誕生於騙子和盜賊的腦海中,他們爲了保險利潤而縱火燒燬了自己的建築,然後將搶救和損壞的庫存出售給遙遠地區的毫無戒心的人們。[托馬斯·J·沙利文,《芝加哥的商人和製造商受審》,1914年]
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