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单词 shanghai
释义
shang·hai (shăng-hī, shănghī)
tr.v. shang·haied, shang·hai·ing, shang·hais
1. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
2. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force:We were shanghaied into buying worthless securities.

[After Shanghai1, from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China.]

shang·haiern.
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