salesmanship 的詞源

"（好）推銷員的特點或品質"，1853年，來自 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]

現代推銷技巧已經變得如此類似於科學化的迫害，以至於能夠自行決策而不被商店代理人強迫去看自己不感興趣的東西或購買自己不想要的東西，已經成爲一種奢侈。一個理智的人，用正常的言語器官，有權被當作知道自己想要什麼並且能夠要求的人來對待。[《文學世界》，1853年2月26日]