Well, you are sort of right but a drummer also used to be an informal way of describing a travelling salesperson – because their job was to drum up business for a company – meaning they tried to increase sales.

嗯，在某种程度上你是对的，但" drummer" 也曾是用来形容旅行推销员的一种非正式方式，因为他们的工作是为司招徕生意，那是指他们努力提高销量。

Were they… a) someone who played the drums, b) a travelling salesman, or c) a music publicist – who drums up – meaning encourages, support for a band?

是… … a）打鼓的人，b）旅行推销员，还是c）音人员——招徕生意，也就是鼓励，支持队的人？

When a traveling salesman named, Hamilton Carhartt asked railroad workers how their uniforms could be improved, he used his findings to create the first Carhartt product, a pair of overalls.

当一位名叫汉密尔顿·卡哈特的旅行推销员向铁路工人询问如何改进他们的制服时，他利用他的发现创造了第一个 Carhartt 产品——一条工装裤。

" It's the room commercials generally 'ave, " she answered with a sniff.

" 这是旅行推销员常住的房间，" 她抽了一下鼻子答道。

Here, several years before he runs for the U.S.House of Representatives in New Hampshire, Stillson is a young travelling salesman hawking Bibles to midwest country folk.

于是我写到斯尔森在新罕什尔州竞选众议院议员之前几年，他还是个年轻的旅行推销员，向中西部那些乡下人叫卖《圣经》。

Cook told Clara how he had gradually become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman.

库克告诉克拉拉，随着时间的推移，他逐渐失明，并分享了他作为旅行推销员的经历。

His name at birth was William Jefferson Blythe. His father, also named William Jefferson Blythe, was a traveling salesman.

他出生时的名字是威廉·杰斐·斯。他的父亲也叫威廉·杰斐·斯，是一名旅行推销员。

" You look like a traveling salesman with all that stuff around your neck.I'm glad to see you."

“你脖子上挂着那么多东西的样子活像个旅行推销员。很高兴见到你。”

How do I look? she asked. Ralph, how heavy this bag is! It feels full of gold.

" 我象不象一个旅行推销员？" 安娜贝尔说。" 哎呀！一拉尔夫，多么沉呀！里面好象装满了金砖。"

The arrival of Hickey, a traveling salesman, blows those dreams away, for a moment at least.

旅行推销员希基的到来把这些白日梦都吹走了 至少暂时吹走了。

It was cold and cheerless in the commercial room where I ate my dinner alone at a large table laid for six. I was served by the slatternly Katie. I asked if I could have a fire.

客店的那个招待旅行推销员的房间又冷又暗，我独自在一张摆了六份餐具的大桌子上吃饭。 那个邋遢的凯在旁边伺候。 我问她能不能生个火。

Pharmaceuticals  spend millions wooing doctors through traveling salesmen, lavish dinners, free products, and  all-expenses-paid trips.

制药司花费数百万通过旅行推销员、丰盛的晚餐、免费产品以及全额报销的旅行来讨好医生。

He's going to be joining us as our new traveling salesman.

他将作为我们的新旅行推销员加入我们。

Back when podcasting was a little bit more simple and I was a traveling salesman with a case and a couple of mics and trying to catch these things on the fly wherever I could.

那时播客还比较简单，我是个带着箱子和几支麦克风的旅行推销员，四处奔波，随时随地捕捉这些即兴的对话。

The next one was a middle-aged traveling salesman, faithful to his wife and a good family man back home, who turns into a ravenous beaver hunter as soon as he gets on the road.

下一个是一位中年旅行推销员，他对妻子忠诚，在家里是个好丈夫，一上路就变成了贪婪的海狸猎人。

Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.

奥雷里亚诺第二对他女儿的进步非常热心，以至于他从一个旅行推销员那里买了一本六卷本的英文百科全书，梅梅在空闲时间阅读了很多彩色印刷品。

But when your cousin said, okay, your grandfather wasn't some great crusading lawyer or judge, he was an alcoholic travelling salesman and you fathered your father illegitimately, did you believe her straight away?

但当你的表姐说， 好吧，你外祖父并非什么伟大的改革律师或法官，他只是个酗酒的旅行推销员， 而你父亲是你私生下来的，你立刻就相信她了吗？

Well, lo and behold, a couple days later, a salesman, a traveling salesman from Minneapolis comes forward and says, Hey, I think that was that was from my gun.

哎呀，瞧瞧，几天后，一位来自明尼阿波利斯的旅行推销员站了出来，说：“嘿，我觉得那可能是从我枪里射出的。”

Being a traveling salesman was a career path for men in a way that women weren't expected to have careers that took them outside their areas of residence.

成为一名旅行推销员是男性的一种职业路径，而女性则不被期望拥有需要离开居住地的职业。

Many people find telephone conversations more convenient than personal interviews, and it is every day displacing the stenographer and the traveling salesman.

许多人发现电话交谈比面谈更方便，而且每天都在取代速记员和旅行推销员。