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Marksmanship is how well you can shoot a gun and hit what you aim at. It names a skill, not a person: a marksman (or markswoman) has marksmanship. You hear it with the army, the police, hunting, and sport shooting. It feels a little formal; in ordinary talk someone is more likely to say “she’s a good shot.” People sometimes stretch it to any kind of aiming, though actually careful speakers keep it for guns. Good marksmanship is not only a good gun — it is quiet hands, a steady eye, and a lot of practice.
槍法、射擊技術
組成marksman (a person who shoots well) + -ship (the skill or state of being that person). It can also be read as marks + -manship.
同家族的字
- marksmanthe person; marksmanship is that person’s skill
- sportsmanshipthe same -manship ending for a kind of skill or way of behaving
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
marksmanshipnoun/ˈmɑɹksmənʃɪp/
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The ability to shoot accurately at a target.
- One evening when it was barely even dusk a sentry let fly at me from a distance of twenty yards; but he missed me by a yard—goodness knows how many times the Spanish standard of marksmanship has saved my life.
- After a fine night on the grog, with bladder pressures reaching an estimated 4,000,000 psi (estimated by drunken scientists), the comparatively short range marksmanship required of an in-sink micturator is a significantly more approachable challenge than the tricky long yellow of the traditional method.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。