ghetto

• n. 犹太人区；贫民区
• vt. 使集中居住

词源不确定。可能缩写自意大利语borghetto, 小城区，词源同borough, hamburg.

1. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live;

"the Warsaw ghetto"

2. any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping;

"the relative security of the gay ghetto"

"no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

3. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

ghetto

ghetto: [17] English acquired ghetto from Italian, but its precise history is uncertain. Among the suggestions are that it represents Italian getto ‘foundry’, from a Jewish enclave in Venice established on the site of a medieval foundry in 1516; that it is short for Italian borghetto, a diminutive form of borgo ‘settlement outside city walls’ (to which English borough is related); and that it was an alteration of Latin Aegyptus ‘Egypt’, presumably an allusion to the captivity of the Jews in Egypt.

ghetto (n.)

1610s, "part of a city in which Jews are compelled to live," especially in Italy, from Italian ghetto "part of a city to which Jews are restricted," of unknown origin. The various theories trace it to: Yiddish get "deed of separation;" a special use of Venetian getto "foundry" (there was one near the site of that city's ghetto in 1516); a clipped form of Egitto "Egypt," from Latin Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or Italian borghetto "small section of a town" (diminutive of borgo, which is of Germanic origin; see borough). Extended by 1899 to crowded urban quarters of other minority groups (especially blacks in U.S. cities). As an adjective by 1903 (modern slang usage from 1999). Ghetto-blaster "large, portable stereo cassette-player" is from 1982.

The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto.

西班牙南海岸可以说已经成为旅游者的聚居区。

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the Warsaw ghetto

华沙的犹太人居住区

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a poor kid growing up in the ghetto

在贫民区长大的穷孩子

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...the gang kids who will never escape the ghetto.

永远无法走出贫民区的帮派少年

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...the black ghettos of New York and Los Angeles.

纽约和洛杉矶的黑人聚居区

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More often they went by secret passageways from buildings on the outskirts of the ghetto.

更经常的是经由建在犹太区近郊的建筑物里面的秘密通道被运送出去.

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In a journey from Guangzhou to the ghetto, freedom has been profoundly unkind, unfriendly and impersonal.

一个移民之旅从广州到贫民区, 自由成为了深远的无情, 不友好及非人性.

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See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined.

被你们摧毁的GHETTO在潜移默化我.

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Udam knows more about ghetto politics and angels than Natalie can absorb.

乌达姆对于犹太区里的政治活动和钩心斗角所了解的,远远超出了娜塔丽所能理会的.

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There are informers in the ghetto who will do anything for a few potatoes.

犹太区有多少告密的,只为几个土豆他们就什么事都做的出来.

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I happen to enjoy my ghetto brew affectation.

我碰巧正沉浸在我的犹太人情感中.

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Did you have to kiII your chick in the ghetto?

你他妈的非要杀死贫民区的那些小鸡崽 吗 ?

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I had always been bothered by the passivity of the ghetto.

黑人区的消极顺从向来使我不安.

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I'm the only one in this whole ghetto who's got no news, Hannah.

我是整个犹太人区唯一一个没有消息的人, 汉娜.

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They built high walls covered in barbed wire to shut us in the ghetto.

他们建造带铁丝网的高墙,将我们禁闭在犹太区.

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Man: Ghetto is liberty.

男人: 犹太人居住区里真自由.

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A section of a medieval city inhabited by Jews; a ghetto.

犹太人居住区犹太人在中世纪居住的城市的一部分; (城市中的)犹太人区.

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A version of my ghetto where life felt for real?

(我所知道的贫民窟,在那里,生活是很真实的)?

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A realistic novel about ghetto life.

一部描写贫民窟的现实主义小说.

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Although some parts of town are pinker than others , Palm Springs contains no gay ghetto.

尽管镇中各区同性恋色彩程度不一, 但是棕榈泉没有明显的同性恋区.

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You're fucking crazy, holmes ! You gotta get out of this ghetto mentality!

你真他妈疯了, 伙计! 你最好放弃这个疯狂的念头!

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When we escaped from the ghetto and came to Argentina, we had nothing.

当我们从犹太区逃到阿根廷, 我们什么都没有.

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Children grow up streetwise in the ghetto.

在贫民区,孩子们在充斥着犯罪与毒品交易的街道上长大.

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SS General Jurgen Stroop watches his troops raze Warsaw's ghetto.

党卫队将军杰尔根.斯特如普注视着被他的部下一位平地的华沙犹太人区.

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Hey, turn down that ghetto blaster in here!

嗨!把这儿的收音机声音开小点!

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The visitors came and went and spread glowing reports about the paradise Ghetto.

客人的来来去去,传播着关于犹太乐园的一些热情洋溢的报道.

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This wortnless currency is the sourest joke of the ghetto, of course.

当然,这种毫无价值的货币是贫民区里最拙劣的笑料.

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It is the same poverty and racism, the same ghetto.

那是同样的贫穷与种族歧视, 同样的贫民窟.

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