| 释义 |
gentrify, v.|ˈdʒɛntrɪfaɪ|
[f. gentry + -ify.]
trans. To renovate or convert (housing, esp. in an inner-city area) so that it conforms to middle-class taste; to render (an area) middle-class.
1972J. I. M. Stewart Palace of Art i. 11 The humbler dwellings..were well-groomed rather than neat, and their little gardens had been gentrified as effectively as had their low parlours. 1975Observer 7 Dec. 13/4 Sound housing..of the type which today would be rehabilitated (or gentrified by the owner-occupying middle classes). 1977N.Y. Times 22 Sept. a2/3 Newcomers are ‘gentrifying’ working-class Islington and should be resisted, not welcomed. 1984Listener 19 Apr. 8/2 In those days, this part of North London had not yet been gentrified. 1985Observer 29 Dec. 20/8 Accountants and graphic designers busily gentrifying the shell-shocked terraces are just as hungry for pleasure.
Hence ˈgentrified, ˈgentrifying ppl. adjs.
1976Times 17 Dec. 30/3 Labour's class of '71 was..a gentrified council, dominated by professional people from Putney rather than people from the working-class areas. 1977Economist 20 Aug. 21/2 He then..attacks his gentry for underusing their newly gentrified houses. 1977Evening Standard 29 Apr. 8/4 The ‘spoilers’ in the urban mosaic of Islington are the borough's growing population of ‘intellectuals’ and ‘trendies’ who are now spreading their ‘gentrifying’ tentacles through even the borough's most decrepit areas. 1984Listener 15 Mar. 34/1 Gather together a group of latter-day Bright Young Things just down from Oxford, congregate them in a communally shared, lavishly gentrified house in SW2. 1986Sunday Times 9 Feb. 24/2 But then the middle classes spread, like gentrifying locusts. Before long it was ‘fashionable Fulham’ in all the property adverts. |