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单词 gentrify
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gentrify
verb[Toften passive]
disapproving
uk
/ˈdʒen.trɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈdʒen.trə.faɪ/
tochangeaplacefrom being apoorareato aricherone, bypeopleof ahighersocialclassmovingtolivethere:
（上层社会的人移居过来而）使（地区）贵族化
Theareawhere Igrewup has been allmodernizedand gentrified, and haslostallitsoldcharacter.我成长的地方已经整个被现代化和贵族化，完全失去了以前的风貌。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
  • anti-bourgeois
  • anti-snob
  • arriviste
  • bougie
  • gentrification
  • go/come down in the worldidiom
  • go/come up in the worldidiom
  • heap
  • petit bourgeois
  • petty bourgeois
  • pleb
  • plebby
  • social mobility
  • the bottom of the heapidiom
  • the gentry
  • the petite bourgeoisie
  • the upper crust
  • trailer trash
  • underclass
  • upper class
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(Definition ofgentrifyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Socialists as well as others—have bought houses in those limited gentrified areas.
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They wanted them to become gentrified and to be country landowners with leisure time.
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An area may go down hill or it may become gentrified (to use a ghastly word).
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Their sons were gentrified, went into the professions and ignored industry.
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They have pointed out that some of the traditional lorry drivers' cafés have changed their character and become what has been called "gentrified".
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What about somebody who lives in a small house in a rundown area that has suddenly become gentrified?
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It says that gentrification takes homes from people who badly need them and provides a contrast between the gentrified and people who are living in poverty.
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As the neighbourhood has gentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support.
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In gentrifying communities without strong rent-control laws poor residents are informally evicted when they can not afford the increased rents.
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The opposing side, the community saved side, argues that community activity increases when neighborhoods are gentrified because these neighborhoods are being revitalized.
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In the 1970s, the suburb began togentrify, with much of the remaining old housing stock being renovated and restored.
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Although historically a working class community, in recent years the neighborhood has been substantially gentrified.
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These changes are echoed by the front cover, whose frontispiece becomes more gentrified.
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It dealt with the longings and dreams of a group of children whose neighborhood was being gentrified and who were forced to move out.
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The area has been considerably gentrified, due in part to recent investment from the various levels of all governments.
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