gentrify

英式音标：[ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ]

美式音标：[ˈdʒɛntrəˌfaɪ]

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概况：

vt. 使优化；修复或改善；使显得高雅；使中产阶级化

vi. 进行改善工作

词义：

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；

变形

过去式：gentrified过去分词：gentrified现在分词：gentrifying第三人称单数：gentrifies

英英释义

gentrify[ 'dʒentrifai ]

v.renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

"gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town"

用法：

权威例句

Gentrify!

I Gentrify Bed-Stuy

Go Forth and Gentrify?

Coffee & Grunge To Gentrify 'Soma'

Gentrify Everything: New Forms of Critical Artistic Agency

How far can developers gentrify Red Hook?

"Gentrify? No! Gentefy? Sí!": Urban Redevelopment and Ethnic Gentrification in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Marketing innovations that help gentrify regional shopping street districts (1)

APPROACHES OF GENTRIFICATION MODEL TO GENTRIFY AND REHABILITATE URBAN OLD CONTEXT

Gentrify or die! Take a lesson from the pros of old when you find yourself staring down a bigger, better-equipped competitor

同义词：optimise

同根词：gentrify,gentlemanlike

英语词源：

gentrify (v.)

"renovate inner-city housing to middle-class standards," by 1972, from gentry + -fy. Related: Gentrified, which was used from early 19c. of persons.

造句：

1. Its nozzle was smeared with some kind of lubricant.

它的喷嘴抹了某种润滑油。

来自柯林斯例句

2. I think humor is a great lubricant for life.

我认为幽默是人生的上好润滑剂。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Most mechanical devices require oil as a lubricant.

绝大多数机械装置都需要用油作为润滑剂。

来自柯林斯例句

4. You put lubricant on a wheel to make it turn more easily.

把润滑剂涂在轮子上使它转起来更零活一些。

来自辞典例句

5. Also the oxide itself is a moderately effective lubricant.

它的氧化物也是中等效能的润滑剂.

来自辞典例句

[ lubricant 造句 ]