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单词 ghetto
释义 ghet·to
I. \ˈged.(ˌ)ō, ˈge(ˌ)tō\ noun
(plural ghettos also ghettoes)
Etymology: Italian
1.
 a. : a quarter of a city (as in Italy) in which Jews were formerly required to live
 b. : a quarter of a city in which the residents are chiefly Jews
  < the tide of immigration from the ghettos of Europe … streamed into New York — American Mercury >
2. : a quarter of a city in which members of a minority racial or cultural group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
 < there have long been self-imposed ghettos in our big industrial centers — Charles Abrams >
 < the racial ghettos which now shelter and set apart from the rest of the community Negroes and Chinese … are invariably located in the slum — R.E.Park >
3. : an isolated or segregated group
 < they're in an economic ghetto, which … forces them to live in some cheap section — Morley Callaghan >
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: ghettoize
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