Gentrification

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