| 释义 |
shang·hai
I. \(ˈ)shaŋ|hī, -aiŋ(|)-\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: from Shanghai, city in eastern China
: of or from the city of Shanghai, China : of the kind or style prevalent in Shanghai
II. noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
: a tall long-legged red and black domestic fowl held to have been imported from the Orient
III. transitive verb
(shanghaied ; shanghaied ; shanghaiing ; shanghais)
Etymology: from Shanghai, China; from the formerly widespread use of unscrupulous means to procure sailors for voyages to the Orient
1.
a. : to put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug
< was notorious as a hell ship whose sailors were usually shanghaied — American Guide Series: Washington >
b. : to put by force or a threat of force into or as if into a place of detention
< prisoners of war, shanghaied laborers, forcibly displaced people and other uprooted men — Journal American Medical Association >
< shanghaied by a white slaver while on her way home from choir practice — Polly Adler >
2. : to put by trickery into an undesirable position
< no other agent in this patriotic traffic has shanghaied more unwary industrialists — E.J.Kahn >
• shanghai·er \-hī(ə)r, -īə\ noun -s
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: perhaps alteration (influenced by Shanghai, China) of shangan
Australia : slingshot |