| 词汇 | gentrifying |
| 释义 | gentrifying present participle ofgentrify gentrify verb[ Toften passive ] disapprovinguk /ˈdʒen.trɪ.faɪ/ us /ˈdʒen.trə.faɪ/ to change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there: （上层社会的人移居过来而）使（地区）贵族化 The area where I grew up has been all modernized and gentrified, and has lost all its old character.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。 Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie trailer trash underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class Examples of gentrifyinggentrifying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In gentrifying communities without strong rent-control laws poor residents are informally evicted when they can not afford the increased rents. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The neighborhood experienced a period of decline until the 1990s, when it began gentrifying. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At the time, the neighborhood was rapidly gentrifying, but wasn't anywhere near as safe as it is now. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. New mixed-use properties were built throughout the 2000s in accordance with the plan, which had a gentrifying effect on the neighborhood. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Today, the area is gentrifying. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of this still exists today, however the area is experiencing a cultural renaissance with new investors and new residents from many countries gentrifying the area. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The increased taxes force many original property owners to either pay and stay (via higher rents for their tenants) or to sell and leave the gentrifying community. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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