单词 | shanghai |
释义 | shanghaiWord family verbshanghainounshanghaier shang·hai /ʃæŋˈhaɪ/ verb (shanghaied, shanghaiing, shanghais) [transitiveT] old-fashioned FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto trick or force someone into doing something unwillingly 诱骗;强迫〔某人做某事〕 shanghai somebody into doing something I got shanghaied into organizing the kids’ party. 我被逼着给孩子们办了聚会。 Examples from the Corpus shanghai• The boys feared being shanghaied into the army. Shanghain na city in East China, in Jiangsu province, but independent of it. Shanghai is China's largest city and its most important port and an industrial centre. (1800-1900) Shanghai; from the use of force or deception to get sailors for ships going to China |
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