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To shanghai someone is to trick them or force them into doing something they did not choose. Today people mostly use it in a looser, almost joking way: you got shanghaied into running the school fair, into driving, into a job you never asked for. The feeling is that other people left you no easy way to say no.
To shanghai someone把某人shanghai is就是 to trick them or force them騙他們或逼他們 into doing something they did not choose去做他們沒選擇要做的事。Today people mostly use it in a looser, almost joking way今天人們大多用比較輕鬆、近乎開玩笑的方式用這個字 you got shanghaied into running the school fair你被拉去辦學校園遊會 into driving被拉去開車 into a job you never asked for被拉去做一份你從沒要求過的工作。The feeling is那種感覺是 that other people left you no easy way to say no別人沒給你一個輕鬆說不的機會。
The older, darker meaning is literal. In the 1800s, on the west coast of the United States, some took men by force — sometimes after drink or drugs — and made them work on ships heading into the Pacific. The verb is recorded from 1871 and takes its name from Shanghai, the Chinese port. Though actually, that crime was American stealing sailors, not something the city itself did; the name stuck because those Pacific runs were tied to Chinese ports.
The older, darker meaning比較舊、比較黑暗的意思 is是 literal字面上的。In the 1800s在十九世紀 on the west coast of the United States在美國西岸 some shippers took men by force一些船東用武力抓走一些人 sometimes after drink or drugs有時候是先讓人喝醉或嗑藥 and made them work on ships heading into the Pacific逼他們到開往太平洋的船上工作。The verb is recorded from 1871這個動詞最早的紀錄是1871年 and takes its name from Shanghai名字來自Shanghai the Chinese port這個中國港口。Though actually不過其實 that crime was American shippers stealing sailors那個罪行是美國船東在偷水手 not something the city itself did不是這個城市自己做的事 the name stuck這個名字留了下來 because those Pacific runs were tied to Chinese ports因為那些太平洋航線跟中國港口有關。
It is informal. The city is Shanghai with a capital S; the verb is usually written shanghai. It does not mean “send someone to Shanghai” in ordinary talk now.
It is這是 informal非正式用語。The city is Shanghai with a capital S城市名Shanghai要大寫S the verb is usually written shanghai動詞通常寫成小寫shanghai。It does not mean它不代表 “send someone to Shanghai”把某人送去Shanghai in ordinary talk now在現在的一般說法裡。
組成From the port city Shanghai. 1871, United States west coast: taking men by force to fill ship crews for Pacific trips.
同家族的字
- Shanghaithe Chinese port the verb is named from
原始詞典資料14 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。
Shanghainame/ʃæŋˈhaɪ/
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A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
- SHANGHAI (the emporium of Nanking) is the first town of any importance on the coast of Kiangnan province.[…]If, however, these difficulties were surmounted, and suitable precautions taken against existing dangers, the embouchure of this river would be one of the most eligible points for the establishment of British commerce in the whole empire. Be this as it may, however, certain it is that even now Shanghai carries on the greatest native trade of any port on the coast.[…] The city of Shanghai is built on the left bank, some distance from the mouth. It is laid out with sufficient elegance, and numerous temples.
- In January 1901, we reached Japan where Mrs. Hoover remained for the winter while I went to Shanghai in search of a method of reaching North China. The Port of Taku being frozen and there being then no railway connection between Shanghai and the north, all communication had been suspended for the winter.
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A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.
shanghaiverb詞源 1/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/
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To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- 1974 September 30, ‘Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God', Oftentimes the approach is to shanghai an unsuspecting victim.
- Their power had a flaw to it. They could be shanghaied in toilets.
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To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
- By this time I hadn't much doubt of the nature of the trap and the identity of the trapping vessel. The faint smell of alcohol in the forehold told the story. I had been sandbagged and taken aboard a bootlegging craft, shanghaied in good old-fashioned style; and the vessel was probably now on its way to the Bahamas for a cargo of spirits.
- Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.
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slanggovernmentlaw-enforcementTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest
- “Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?” “I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”
- There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.
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To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
- Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.
shanghainoun詞源 1/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/
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datedA breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
- Cochins or Shanghaes.
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obsoleteA kind of daub.
- The ‘shanghai’ is the glaring daub required by some frame-makers for cheap auctions. They are turned out at so much by the day's labor, or at from $12 to $24 a dozen, by the piece.
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obsoleteA tall dandy.
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dartsgamesA kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.
- ‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.
- The hot twenty—including local favourites George Simmons, Tony Brown, Mick Norris and Lew Walker—have to sweat through nineteen 501s, one 1,001, one 2,001, one round-the-board-on-doubles, one shanghai and one halve-it.
shanghainoun詞源 2/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/
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Synonym of slingshot.
- Turn, turn thy shang~hay dread aside, Nor touch that little bird
- ‘Terry Madison. Instead of fiddling with that shanghai, give us a thought.’ ‘It’s a gongai,’ Swiftie said. ‘I mean that’s the name for a shanghai which is another name for a catapult...that Mr Delarue calls a slingshot.’
shanghaiverb詞源 2/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/
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To hit with a slingshot.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。