gentrify是什么意思

音标: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

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

gentrify的用法和例句：

1. Because it's a little more civilized, more gentrified.

因为那里更文明一些 环境更好一点

2. I thought it was a gentrifying neighborhood.

我以为这只是一个高档社区

3. Wow, this place is not gentrified at all.

这地方一点贵族区的气息都没有

4. Residents are upset about some of the efforts to gentrify the neighborhood.

那里的居民不满 街区的高端化发展

5. It was supposed to gentrify but the zoning didn't come through and he got screwed.

本来应该改造为高档地段 但是区域规划没被批准 于是他被坑了

6. It's an online message board for gentrifiers to post complaints.

这是高雅人士张贴 投诉意见的线上论坛

7. All right, look, there's homeless people all over our gentrified foodandarts district.

好吧 听我说 流浪汉全跑到 我们的高档食品文化区了

8. There are beings who are purposely gentrifying the earth so that humans can no longer afford it.

地球上来了一些生命体 它们故意高档化地球 让人类负担不起生活开销

9. I mean, if he wanted to gentrify the neighborhood, he would've turned it into a dog park.

如果他想把这里变成高级住宅区 就会把这里改造成遛狗公园

10. He's one of these new hipsters moving in, gentrifying and dogshitting the whole neighborhood.

他是其中一个新搬来的嬉皮士 他们把这区中产化 还让狗随地拉屎