gentrification
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n. (名詞 noun)
1. 將日漸破敗的市區改造為良好的中產階級居住區
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
gentrification (n.), gentrify (v.)
Both the verb (meaning "to restore to middle-class standards and purposes a deteriorated part of a city") and the noun (the process of doing so) have achieved Standard status, though only relatively recently.
Each also has a pejorative generalized use meaning "to uplift or improve status of speech, dress, or other manners."
Will escapes to his fabulously chic warehouse studio in the King's Cross district of London, a working-class neighborhood in the midst of gentrification—or at least what passes for it in this guilt-ridden fantasy of class conflict and mutual appreciation.
see parochial
Yahoo!奇摩字典
n. (名詞 noun)
1. 將日漸破敗的市區改造為良好的中產階級居住區
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
gentrification (n.), gentrify (v.)
Both the verb (meaning "to restore to middle-class standards and purposes a deteriorated part of a city") and the noun (the process of doing so) have achieved Standard status, though only relatively recently.
Each also has a pejorative generalized use meaning "to uplift or improve status of speech, dress, or other manners."
Will escapes to his fabulously chic warehouse studio in the King's Cross district of London, a working-class neighborhood in the midst of gentrification—or at least what passes for it in this guilt-ridden fantasy of class conflict and mutual appreciation.
see parochial
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