1SSRTOWNa part of a city where people of a particular race or class, especially people who are poor, live separately from the rest of the people in the city. This word is sometimes considered offensive. 〔通常条件很差的〕少数民族聚居区,贫民区〔有时被认为具有冒犯性〕 → slum
(1600-1700)Italian perhaps from getto“place where metals are melted and made into things”; because a 16th-century ghetto in Venice was where such a place had once existed