ghetto
n. 犹太人区
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词形变化
教材释义与例句
犹太人区；贫民区
使集中居住
释义与例句
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1.
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
贫民区
聚居区
犹太人居住区
犹太区
隔都
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2.
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
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3.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
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4.
An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
贬义 比喻2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.
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1.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
及物
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1.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
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2.
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
非正式 俚语My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
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3.
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
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词源
Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.
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