ghetto
noun /ˈɡetəʊ/
/ˈɡetəʊ/
(plural ghettos, ghettoes)
- an area of a city where many people of the same race or background live, separately from the rest of the population. Ghettos are often crowded, with bad living conditions.
（相同种族或背景人的）聚居区；贫民区 - a poor kid growing up in the ghetto
在贫民区长大的穷孩子 - 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。 - He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto.
他倾向于坚持旧金山同性恋聚居区的相对安全。 - 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，并形成了贫民窟心态。 - kids from the ghetto
贫民窟的孩子
Wordfinder- amenity
- city
- ghetto
- high-rise
- metropolitan
- population
- slum
- suburb
- town
- urban
- a poor kid growing up in the ghetto
- the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past
（昔日城镇中的）犹太人居住区 - the Warsaw ghetto
华沙的犹太人居住区
- the Warsaw ghetto
词源early 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’.