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It is easy to see why the perfectly gentrified, former working-class Jordaan is a favourite of overseas buyers, but it is also a place of contrast, with a pervasive, kooky atmosphere rather at odds with a deep-rooted conservatism.

这很容易理解为何海外各路买家最为青睐昔日工薪阶层聚居、如今已成高档住宅区的约尔丹，但此处又反差明显，到处弥漫着某种怪异氛围，与根深蒂固的因循守旧之风显得格格不入。

Avoid overly gentrified Nanluoguxiang, a crowded strip of T-shirt and snack shops, and head instead to the maze of alleys around quieter Baochao Hutong to the west.

不要去改造一新的南锣鼓巷，那条狭长的街道异常拥挤，两旁大多是T恤店和小吃店。还是去西边更安静的宝钞胡同吧，附近的胡同如迷宫一般。

I thought it was a gentrifying neighborhood.

我以为只是在修建中的一个街区

Old working-class areas of the city are being gentrified.

这个城市工人居住的老城区正在进行改造，以供较高阶层人士居住。

The revitalized PMQ complex-two midrise buildings set around a large central courtyard-takes up a whole city block on the western edge of Soho, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where art galleries and French bistros are next to working-class shops and apartments.

重生的“元创方”是围绕着一个大中心广场的两栋中等高度的建筑，它位于Soho区西部边缘，占据了一整片街区，这是一个品味迅速提升的地方，画廊和法餐厅混杂在工薪阶层的公寓及店铺之间。

At bars and restaurants in Houston's newly gentrified East End and Midtown districts, you often hear the young bucks ( and does) comparing notes on their company's break-even points with respect to oil prices.

在休斯敦新兴的中产阶层社区East End和Midtown的酒吧和餐馆里，经常能听到小伙子（和姑娘）们探讨自己所在公司的盈亏平衡点和油价的关联。

The local neighbourhood, like so many areas of Manhattan, is gradually being gentrified.

同曼哈顿的许多地区一样，当地街区正逐渐贵族化。

He told me quite sadly that most of the area in which he had grown up had now been modernized and gentrified, and had lost all its old character.

他很悲哀地告诉我，在他长大的地方，大部分地区现在都被现代化了，中产阶级也移居到此，这里已完全失去了它昔日的特色。

Housing advocates worry that if rezoning is not done carefully, communities could quickly gentrify.

保障房倡导者们则担心，如果重新区划做得不认真，那么居民社区或将迅速士绅化。

He's trying to gentrify the glades.

他试图收购空地

Neighborhoods have also seen a resurgence, including the quickly gentrifying Monastiraki and the still gritty Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio; the latter will get a cultural lift in 2015 from the biannual ReMap art event.

社区也在振兴之中，包括飞速改善的Monastiraki与仍然质朴的Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio社区，后者将在2015年举办两年一度的ReMap艺术节，由此获得文化领域的飞跃。

He has made a genuine attempt to improve conditions, but only genuine refugees can apply for asylum, and old working class areas of the city are being gentrified.

他就是其中一员，他真心实意的努力改善环境，但只有真正的难民才能申请政治避难，而且这个城市的工人居住旧区正进行改造，以供较高阶层的人居住。