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gen.tri.fy obj5Jen7trI7faIv [T]When a part of a town is gentrified, it is changed from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there.(由于中产阶级的移居而)使贫穷地区发生变化He told me quite sadly that most of the area in which he had grown up had now been modernized and gentrified, and had lost all its old character.他很悲哀地告诉我,在他长大的地方,大部分地区现在都被现代化了,中产阶级也移居到此,这里已完全失去了它昔日的特色。
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