ghetto 的 2 个定义
plural ghet·tos, ghet·toes.
- a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social pressures or economic hardships.
- a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
- any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.
- pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there: ghetto culture.
- Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior: Her furniture is so ghetto!
ghetto 近义词
slum
ghetto 的近义词 2 个
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- The San Francisco Chronicle documented a man in the Bay Area worrying that affordable housing might turn his area into a “ghetto.”
- Relegated to low-class jobs and living in crowded ethnic ghettos, the Irish were portrayed as undesirable immigrants with less-than-average intelligence, who were prone to criminality.
- Sophie, as a teen, was imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto from 1941 to 1943.
- In 1975, FBI Deputy Associate Director James Adams testified before the Senate that the bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as confidential sources within the Klan — as good an index as any of the agency's priorities.
- An equal pay for work of equal value clause insulates women from the wage inequity inherent in pink ghetto jobs, or jobs that are underpaid by virtue of being predominantly female.
- Neither was there a return to the loyal but small ghetto of Charter 77.
- Although, I think all those ghetto/goth kids are doing something with Melissa Burns; all the weirdo kids.
- What about the ghetto residents who exhibit “mainstream” values on working, education, and child-rearing?
- His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
- Yet Three Crosses Square was something of a haven from the horrors of war and the nearby ghetto.
- For, in truth, the exterior appearance and the entrance-chambers are the worst part of the Ghetto dwellings.
- But the name of the Old Jewry reminds us of the ghetto which was an important part of old London.
- To this roaming, hunting, exploring, adventurous breed what greater contrast is there than the denizens of the Ghetto?
- Hence it has been suggested Judaicam became Italian Giudeica and thence became corrupted into ghetto.
- They belong among the best Ghetto stories that have been written in New York, and they display undoubted talent.