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单词 ghetto
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ghet·to

noun
/ˈɡetəʊ/
/ˈɡetəʊ/
(plural ghettos, ghettoes)
  1. (often disapproving) a poor area of a city where a particular group of people live isolated from the rest of the population, for example people of the same ethnic group or background城市的贫困地区,其中特定人群与其他人群(例如同一种族或背景的人)隔离居住
    • a poor kid who grew up in the ghetto一个在贫民区长大的穷孩子
    • I'm from the ghetto and I didn't have it easy.我来自贫民窟,过得并不容易。
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  2. an area or group with particular characteristics, in which people are in some way separate from the rest of the population 具有特定特征的地区或群体,其中的人们在某种程度上与其他人口分开
    • He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto.他倾向于坚持相对安全的旧金山同性恋聚居区。
    • The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto.西班牙南部海岸可以说已经成为旅游者的聚居区。
    • They felt their beliefs made them outsiders, and had developed a ghetto mentality.他们觉得自己的信仰使他们成为局外人,并形成了一种贫民窟心态。
  3. the area of a town where Jewish people were forced to live in the past过去犹太人被迫居住的城镇地区
    • the Warsaw ghetto华沙的犹太人居住区
  4. Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
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