an area of a city where many people of the same race or background live, separately from the rest of the population. Ghettos are often crowded, with bad living conditions. （相同种族或背景人的）聚居区；贫民区 a poor kid growing up in the ghetto 在贫民区长大的穷孩子 The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto. 西班牙南部海岸可以说已经成为旅游者的聚居区。 He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto. 他倾向于坚持旧金山同性恋聚居区的相对安全。 They felt their beliefs made them outsiders, and had developed a ghetto mentality. 他们觉得自己的信仰使他们成为局外人，并形成了贫民窟心态。 kids from the ghetto 贫民窟的孩子
the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past （昔日城镇中的）犹太人居住区 the Warsaw ghetto 华沙的犹太人居住区
Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.