语言趣谈|英语中的 "Shanghai"你知道什么意思吗？

Shanghai

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基本含义（名词）：

a city on the east coast of China, a port on the estuary of the Yangtze; pop. 11,283,700 (est. 2006). Opened for trade with the west in 1842, Shanghai contained until the Second World War areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

上海（中国东部沿海城市, 长江入海处港口; 2006年估计人口11,283,700; 1842年开放与西方的贸易, 到第二次世界大战前, 一直有英国、法国和美国租界, 是1921年中国共产党成立的地点）。

—— 新牛津英汉双解大词典 （第二版）

其他含义（动词）：

1. to abduct someone; to compel someone to do something. From military usage, 'to transfer forcibly' US, 1934.

   绑架某人；强迫某人做某事。来自军事用法，“强制转移”，1934年美国。

   
   

2. to transfer a prisoner without warning AUSTRALIA, 1980.

   毫无预警地转移囚犯，1980年澳大利亚。

   
   

3. to detail someone to a task; to enlist someone to do something that they are not entirely willing to do. From US nautical slang describing a method of recruiting sailors consisting of drugs and force US, 1915

   详细对某人说明任务；征召某人做其不完全愿意做的事情。来自美国的航海俚语，描述一种通结合迷药和武力的方法来招募水手，1915年美国

   
   

4. to trick or force someone into doing something unwillingly

   诱骗，强迫〔某人做某事〕；通过坑蒙拐骗、威逼利诱、或其他不正常手段，把人运到别处

朗文高阶英汉双解第六版例句：

1. I got shanghaied into organizing the kids’ party.

   我被逼着给孩子们办了聚会。

   
   
   
   

2. The boys feared being shanghaied into the army.

   男孩们害怕被迫参军。

   
   

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