shanghai
意味
- シャンハイ(上海)(中国第一の貿易港市)
- (麻薬・酒・暴力などで)…を意識を失わせ船に連れ込んで水夫にする
- 〈人〉に無理やり(…を)やらせる《+名+into+名》
例文
The last time I went to China, I visited Shanghai.
この前中国へ行ったとき、上海を訪れた。
Shanghai is among the largest cities in the world.
上海は世界の大都市の1つです。
I left Shanghai last year and have not yet been back.
私は昨年上海を立ち去って、まだ戻っていません。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.