喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈseɪlzˌpɜːrsən/ · /ˈseɪlzˌpɜːsən/業務員

    someone whose job is to sell things in a shop or for a company.

    示範例句 · Example

    Ask a salesperson if you need a different size.

    逐字問一位業務員如果你需要一個不同的尺寸。

    「salesperson」是「工作就是把東西賣給客人的人」，台灣常說業務員（店裡幫忙介紹商品時也常說店員／銷售員）。核心畫面可以想成「站在商品旁邊、幫忙選、介紹、成交的人」——百貨公司、玩具店、公司業務都用同一個詞。跟 salesman / saleswoman 分開：那兩個標性別；salesperson 比較中性、現在更常寫。跟 sales 分開：sales 多半是「銷售額」或「業務部門」；講「這個人」要用 salesperson（或 sales representative）。

    常見搭配

    • ask a salesperson

      請業務員／店員幫忙

      speak to a salesperson when you need help in a shop

      Ask a salesperson where the sports shoes are.

    • a helpful / skillful salesperson

      熱心／很會賣的業務員

      a salesperson who is kind or good at selling and helping

      A helpful salesperson found a smaller size for Mei.

    • a senior salesperson

      資深業務員

      an experienced salesperson with a higher role

      Boyd will be a senior salesperson at the new office.

    • salespeople

      業務員們（複數）

      more than one salesperson (usual plural)

      The store hired five new salespeople this month.

    • work as a salesperson

      擔任業務員；做銷售工作

      have a job selling things

      Aisha works as a salesperson for a bike company.

    用法接近

    sales representativeshopkeeperclerkvendor

core核心畫面

Picture whoever is on the selling side of the counter — in a shop or out visiting customers — with no hint of whether that person is a man or a woman. That neutrality is the whole point of the word.

可以想成櫃檯「賣的那一邊」站著的人：在店裡，或是跑出去拜訪客戶都算，而句子完全不透露這個人是男是女。sales（銷售）＋person（人），這個 person 就是重點——它是為了不指定性別而造出來的字。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 salespeople / salespersons

用法接近

sales representativeshopkeeperclerkvendor

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。

salespersonnoun

  • 1

    A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.

    • When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."
    • Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。