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正面 8745.ghetto
英 ['getəʊ]美 ['ɡɛto]

背面
释义:
n. 犹太人区;贫民区vt. 使集中居住
例句:
1. Three-fourths of the apartments in the ghetto had no heat.贫民区有3/4的公寓没有暖气。

1. 谐音“死跑赢他”-----(字母r与字母y形近,故以字母y为谐音)冲刺,全速跑。2. Sprint (斯普林特) -------- 美国著名的电信公司之一。
ghetto 贫民窟,犹太人居住区词源不确定。可能缩写自意大利语borghetto, 小城区,词源同borough, hamburg.
ghettoghetto: [17] English acquired ghetto from Italian, but its precise history is uncertain. Among the suggestions are that it represents Italian getto ‘foundry’, from a Jewish enclave in Venice established on the site of a medieval foundry in 1516; that it is short for Italian borghetto, a diminutive form of borgo ‘settlement outside city walls’ (to which English borough is related); and that it was an alteration of Latin Aegyptus ‘Egypt’, presumably an allusion to the captivity of the Jews in Egypt.ghetto (n.)1610s, "part of a city in which Jews are compelled to live," especially in Italy, from Italian ghetto "part of a city to which Jews are restricted," of unknown origin. The various theories trace it to: Yiddish get "deed of separation;" a special use of Venetian getto "foundry" (there was one near the site of that city's ghetto in 1516); a clipped form of Egitto "Egypt," from Latin Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or Italian borghetto "small section of a town" (diminutive of borgo, which is of Germanic origin; see borough). Extended by 1899 to crowded urban quarters of other minority groups (especially blacks in U.S. cities). As an adjective by 1903 (modern slang usage from 1999). Ghetto-blaster "large, portable stereo cassette-player" is from 1982."

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