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shanghaied

/shang-hahy, shang-hahy/US // ˈʃæŋ haɪ, ʃæŋˈhaɪ //UK // (ˈʃæŋhaɪ, ʃæŋˈhaɪ) slang //

遭劫持,遭劫持的,被绑架,遭殃

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    shang·haied, shang·hai·ing.Nautical.

    • : to enroll or obtain for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.

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Examples

  • We just opened a Shanghai office, and I want to make sure that there’s free movement of ideas, of knowledge.

  • At the time it filed its prospectus, the Shanghai-based company had only shipped 500 units and was $500 million in debt.

  • The Shanghai Stock Exchange canceled Ant’s IPO in Shanghai the next day.

  • The stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen rank among the world’s top 10 operators and have for years rivaled to claim the top spot.

  • The new rules also came just one week after Beijing pulled the plug on Ant Group’s highly anticipated dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

  • The shanghaied man stood facing Schantze, with all the deference of a sailor, yet subtly defiant.

  • He had none the less been shanghaied for a voyage of great length, and he had been shanghaied out of sincere kindness.

  • But Bowers appeared to have vanished as entirely as though he had been shanghaied and was a hundred miles at sea.

  • I was shanghaied onto a freighter, and had to work for eight years without pay to get passage back.

  • In the carriage I asked the detective chief what was meant by ‘Shanghaied’ for it was evidently a criminal class word.