1. 1nB1/ˈseɪlzmən/業務員;推銷員

    a man whose job is to talk with people and get them to buy his company's products.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo's dad works as a car salesman at a big shop near the station.

    逐字李奧的爸爸在車站附近的一家大店當汽車業務員。

    「salesman」是「說服別人買公司產品的男性業務」。How can we think of it? 核心畫面可以想成「帶著公司的東西去跟人談、讓對方想買」——像汽車、電腦、保險業務。台灣口語常說「業務員」或「推銷員」。它跟 sales assistant / shop assistant(店員)不一樣:店員多半在店裡接待客人;salesman 更常強調「替公司推銷、說服客戶」。現代也常用中性的 salesperson。可數名詞,複數是 salesmen。

    常見搭配

    • car salesman

      汽車業務員

      a man who sells cars for a company

      The car salesman let Sam sit in the new family car.

    • insurance salesman

      保險業務員

      a man who sells insurance for a company

      An insurance salesman explained a simple family plan to Dad.

    • computer salesman

      電腦業務員

      a man who sells computers for a company

      The computer salesman showed Hana which laptop fitted her bag.

    • travelling salesman

      旅行業務/跑外務

      a salesman who travels to visit customers in different places

      As a travelling salesman, he packed light and planned each town visit.

    • a good salesman

      優秀的業務員

      a salesman who is skilled at selling

      Everyone said Zoe's uncle was a good salesman because he listened well.

    • work as a salesman

      當業務員

      to have a job as a salesman

      After college, Jamal worked as a salesman for a bike company.

    • salesman for a company

      某公司的業務員

      a salesman employed by a particular company

      She met a salesman for a big book company at the fair.

    意思相近

    salespersonsaleswomansales repseller

    用法接近

    sales assistantshop assistantvendormerchant

    意思相反

    customerbuyer

core核心畫面

Picture the man who stands between a company's product and the person who might buy it — showing it, explaining it, answering doubts. His work is the talking, not the making.

可以想成站在「公司的東西」跟「可能會買的人」中間的那個男生:他把東西拿出來、講給你聽、回答你的疑慮。他的工作是那段對話,不是製造那樣東西。sales(銷售)+man(男人)拼起來,字面就把這件事說完了。

複數 salesmen

意思相近

salespersonsaleswomansales repseller

用法接近

sales assistantshop assistantvendormerchant

意思相反

customerbuyer

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

salesmannoun

  • 1

    A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.

    • There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'
    • Would you say it was fair to describe these salesmen that were in your crews as dynamiters, or suede shoe salesmen?

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