ghetto: [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.
雙語例句
1. Three-fourths of the apartments in the ghetto had no heat.
貧民區(qū)有3/4的公寓沒有暖氣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a poor kid growing up in the ghetto
在貧民區(qū)長大的窮孩子
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. See I'm influenced by the ghetto you ruined.
被你們摧毀的GHETTO在潛移默化我.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. One of the most atmospheric corners of Prague is the old Jewish ghetto.