- 1（美國城市裡的）拉丁裔社區、西語聚居區。西語裡 barrio 只是「街區」，不必然窮。
In American English, a barrio is a part of a town or city where many Spanish-speaking people live, often a poorer or working-class Latino neighbourhood. You will hear it about places like Los Angeles, New York, or cities in the southwest of the United States: shop signs in Spanish, food from Mexico or the Caribbean, a strong local identity. English borrowed the word from Spanish, and this is the messy part: in Spanish, barrio is just “neighbourhood.” It need not be poor, and it need not be only for Latino people. English speakers narrowed it. Some people say it with pride (my barrio, our barrio); used from the outside, it can sound as if the speaker is pointing to “the poor Spanish area,” so tone matters. It is not a swear word, and it is not the same as slum. Use it when you are talking about US (and some Latin American) city life, not as a general word for any crowded street.
組成Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Barrioname
- 1
A surname from Spanish.
barrionoun
- 1
A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
- 2
A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
- 3
A rural barangay or neighborhood.
- In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.
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informalAn area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
- After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.
- Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。