英:[ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ]
美:[ˈdʒɛntrəˌfaɪ]
英:[ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ]
美:[ˈdʒɛntrəˌfaɪ]
vt.
使中产阶级化
使显得高雅
修复或改善
使优化
vi.
进行改善工作
gen·tri·fy
jen tr faI
第三人称单数:gentrifies
现在分词:gentrifying
过去式:gentrified
过去分词:gentrified
词根:gentrify
adj.gentlemanlike 绅士的;举止高雅的
Verb
1. renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations;
"gentrify a row of old houses"
"gentrify the old center of town"
"改造城市内部住房以符合中产阶级标准",始于1972年,源自 gentry 和 -fy。相关词汇: Gentrified,早在19世纪就用于描述人。
gentry + -ify (or as back-formation from gentrification)
The first known use of gentrify was in 1972
1 It was only four months ago that the website Curbed LA published a long essay with the headline “Why doesn’t MacArthur Park gentrify?”
2 The artist found herself interested in the ways urban dwellers orient themselves, especially when she learned that gentrifying urban environments can leave aging residents disoriented.
3 This is not about appropriating or gentrifying queerness.
4 The restaurant, 10 minutes from the Petworth Metro stop on the Green and Yellow lines, is in a gentrifying neighborhood where families are moving in and businesses are popping up — and sometimes disappearing quickly.
5 The idea, Mr. Martens said, is to bring “the legitimization machine — the Modernist white cube” — to a place like Lusanga to harness art’s gentrifying powers.
6 “I’m a black woman who owns a business in gentrified Brooklyn,” Chaney says.
7 It got its start as a working-class black neighborhood, before being gentrified in the 1940s.
8 Like, when I tell people I’m from the Bronx, they’ll say the Bronx is gentrifying.
9 In these new episodes, Issa has a focus and a goal, to produce a block party with major sponsorships showcasing local artists in her quickly gentrifying South Central L.A. neighborhood.
10 By then I was living a few blocks away, in one of the safely gentrified parts of Venice.
11 Gershwin’s Catfish Row is based on Cabbage Row, which still exists in a now gentrified neighborhood.
12 She plays a record store owner in the gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. hulu.com.
13 “I don’t want to go gentrify other neighborhoods that are being gentrified,” Parker says.
14 When the book begins, the neighborhood is as blandly gentrified as today’s Williamsburg waterfront, its Caribbean residents long ago pushed out by the “watercress-and-wasabi set.”
15 Downtown stretches in the opposite direction, offering the gentrified foodie temple Grand Central Market and the restored Theater at Ace Hotel, which hosts indie bands and screens art films.
16 The ethnic demographics of the now gentrifying East Harlem have changed.
17 Left, right and straight ahead, the streets all looked the same to me: gentrified.
18 “You know your neighbourhood is gentrifying,” my sister said, “when the pet-grooming store arrives.”
19 Soak in the rapidly gentrifying Lastarria area, where wine bars and independent designer shops are flourishing.
20 The Squeaky Bean This hyper-casual spot in the rapidly gentrifying Highlands area is the sort of neighborhood restaurant every neighborhood needs.