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shanghai English

Meaning shanghai meaning

What does shanghai mean?
Definitions in simple English

Shanghai Proper noun

— Shanghai is China's largest city.

shanghai

— verb take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship The men were shanghaied after being drugged

Shanghai

— noun the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world

Synonyms shanghai synonyms

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Topics shanghai topics

What do people use shanghai to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

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Conjugation shanghai conjugation

How do you conjugate shanghai?

shanghai · verb

Examples shanghai examples

How do I use shanghai in a sentence?

Simple sentences

One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
The last time I went to China, I visited Shanghai.
The population of Shanghai is as large as that of Tokyo.
The taxi fares in Shanghai are expensive.
As soon as I'm back in Shanghai, I'll cook up a delicious meal of rice noodles with crab.
I left Shanghai last year and I've never been back.
His younger brother went to Shanghai the day before yesterday.
After my graduation, I'd like to go to Shanghai, in order to study China's history.
Fabio lived for two years in Shanghai.
Shanghai is the fastest-growing city in the world.
There are many more beautiful ladies in Shanghai than in Tokyo.
It is rumoured that a spaceship has been seen near Shanghai.
We will go to Beijing and Shanghai.
They made a mistake, it's not Mexican jerboa, it's Shanghai leopard.
I went twice to Beijing and once to Shanghai.
He is not going to Shanghai.

Movie subtitles

This is one of the great outposts of British penetration of Asia - the Shanghai Bund.
The old headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank used to be described as the most luxurious building between the Suez canal and the Bering Strait.
Um, there was a young girl from Shanghai.
There was a young girl from Shanghai whose beauty enchanted my eye.
Yokohama, Melbourne, Shanghai.
Say, get me Shanghai.
A cruiser sent to Shanghai just to take you back to England.
We're going west, and Shanghai is way east of here.
We're nowhere near Shanghai.
Cable Lord Gainsford at Shanghai.
My friends and I, and the lady in the plane left Baskul the night before last for Shanghai.
There's a cruiser at Shanghai to take him back.
Do you realise that there was a British cruiser waiting at Shanghai smoke pouring out of its funnels, tugging at its moorings waiting to take Mr. Conway back to London.
When the plane lands at Shanghai and wakes us all up.
I want a ticket to Shanghai, first class.
Shanghai, first class, please.
Shanghai Lily.
Sir, let me remind you that China is in a state of civil war and we will be fortunate if we arrive in Shanghai at all.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
So youre Shanghai Lily.
I have a boarding house in Shanghai.
At least, Shanghai Lily is.
You mean to say that Shanghai Lily is on this train?
But lll lay you 100-1 in any currency that the lady in the next compartment is Shanghai Lily.
Confound it, thats Shanghai Lily.
Do you expect to stay in Shanghai a while?
The real ones are in the safe in Shanghai.
Why are you going to Shanghai?
I'm going to hold hands with her (join with her in business) and open a Kingdom in Shanghai.
The other one to Shanghai.
I could talk fish from here to Shanghai.
Shanghai's little darling, Miss Linda Loy. Hey, I can't see!
What is it? We have a guest. He's come all the way from Shanghai.
But I was thinking that after I graduate. I'd like to go to Shanghai and and study in a high school there.
In Paris, Constantinople, Cairo to Shanghai.
We'll shanghai Wendy.
And just to treat you fair and square, we're paying double wages and a bonus, from Frisco to Shanghai and back, all found.
I picked that up in Shanghai, which has also seen better days.
It's not just any watch, I bought it in Shanghai.
We all know you've been to Shanghai.
Listen, Kusaka, I saw how the Westerners violated Shanghai.

News and current affairs

Boom mentality spread to Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney around 1997, to Paris in 1998, to Miami, Moscow, and Shanghai in 2001, and Vancouver around 2002.
The BRICS' New Development Bank, it was announced, will be headquartered in Shanghai, not New Delhi; India's consolation prize was that an Indian will serve as the Bank's first president.
Money poured into the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock markets, as did direct investment to build factories and offices in tax-free zones.
China joined Russia, Brazil, India, and South Africa in establishing the New Development Bank, to be based in Shanghai.
For example, in 1998 it sentenced a Shanghai engineer to two years in prison for selling 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses to an overseas-based dissident newsletter.
Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the west, might never catch up with Suzhou, a well-known manufacturing base near Shanghai.
Its aim is to gain as much prestige as possible from the Olympic games in 2008 and the six-month World Expo in Shanghai during the spring and summer of 2010.
The reality of life in today's China looks very different from the vantage point of a province far from the heady atmosphere of Beijing or Shanghai.
At the same time, while the Wolfowitz scandal unfolded, China was playing host to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), which held its Board meeting in Shanghai.
The ADB meeting took place in the Pudong District, Shanghai's most remarkable development site.
Many African governments at the Shanghai meeting declared their intention to act boldly, by investing in infrastructure, agricultural modernization, public health, and education.
In graphic detail, Gore demonstrated how a 20-foot rise in the sea level would inundate much of Florida, Shanghai, and Holland.
According to the conventional wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
China's president achieved and consolidated his power by relying on a small coterie drawn from his Shanghai political base.
The most striking change in the rankings is the rise of major Asian financial centers - and not just Hong Kong and Singapore, but also Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen.
But, even with a university degree, life in go-go Shanghai turns out not to be as she had imagined.
Kazakhstan already plays a key role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a group that comprises Central Asian countries, along with Russia and China.
Shanghai - Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.
Most concretely, the long-anticipated New Development Bank, run jointly and equally by the five BRICS countries, opened its doors in Shanghai in July.
China has also been pursuing initiatives like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the revitalization of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Indian information technology firms have opened offices in Shanghai and Hangzhou, and Infosys recruited nine Chinese this year for its headquarters in Bangalore.
NEW YORK - Recently, China's government announced that it wants Shanghai to become a global financial capital equal to London and New York by 2020.
SHANGHAI - The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.
And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
I was in Beijing in the fall of 2007, when the Shanghai Composite Index skyrocketed to almost 6,000 (the recent peak was just over 5,000), owing partly to the participation of relatively inexperienced retail investors.
Last October, when the Shanghai Composite Index was in the 2,500 range, many analysts considered equity prices undervalued.
The trigger for this wave of scorn was Li's sell-off of some of his prime Shanghai properties, after relocating his corporate registry from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands.
It used to be difficult to find anything to do on a Saturday night in Shanghai.
When Shanghai sought a similar role several years ago, bankers and investors around the world wondered whether the aim was really for Shanghai to replace Hong Kong as China's financial heart.
In the current pilot project, Tianjin in China's north and Shanghai in the south are competing against each other, prompting even more second-guessing.
As a result, Shanghai has been restricted from making the best of its financial functions, and Hong Kong, Asia's acknowledged financial center, from assisting China's financial modernization.

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