- 1仕紳化（台灣報導常用；中國大陸多說「紳士化」）
Gentrification is the slow change that happens when people with more money move into a poor or run-down area, fix up the buildings, and open new shops. Rents rise. Old neighbours may have to leave. The streets look cleaner, and the area is called 'improved' — though actually, who it is better for is the fight inside the word. Some people hear a success story: safer streets, nicer cafés. Others hear a loss: the people who made the place cannot stay. It is a city-planning and newspaper word, a little formal, and often political. A German-born British , Ruth Glass, coined it in 1964, from gentry, the class with land and manners. The verb is ; a gentrified street is one this has already happened to.
組成From gentry + -ification, after the verb gentrify. Coined by the sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964.
原始詞典資料2 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。
gentrificationnoun/d͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
- Labour's manifesto contains the wild promise of 'war on the private landlord,' but this may conceal a real determination to use the powers of compulsory purchase to prevent the existing residents of places like North Kensington being driven out by the twin forces of 'gentrification' and development.
- Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.
- 2
A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.
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