ghetto

ゲットー、貧民街

特定の社会集団や民族の人々が多く住む、都市の貧しい地区。

やさしい英語で： A poor part of a city, often home to a particular social or ethnic group.

• He grew up in a ghetto.
• The city invested in housing in the ghetto.
• Residents wanted better schools and jobs in their ghetto.

類義語： slum

よく使う表現： urban ghetto, live in a ghetto, poor ghetto

ゲットー

特にナチス支配下で、ユダヤ人が法律によって住むことを強いられた地区。

やさしい英語で： A city area where Jewish people were forced by law to live, especially under Nazi rule.

• They were forced into a ghetto.
• Walls separated the ghetto from the rest of the city.
• The museum tells the stories of families imprisoned in the ghetto.

よく使う表現： Jewish ghetto, Warsaw ghetto, walled ghetto

ゲットー育ちの

アメリカの都市にある貧しい地区で育ったこと。

やさしい英語で： Having grown up in a poor city area in the United States.

• He describes himself as a ghetto kid.
• Her ghetto upbringing shaped her view of the city.
• The novel follows a ghetto teenager through his first year at college.

よく使う表現： ghetto kid, ghetto background, ghetto upbringing