an area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people

As a child she lived in one of New York's poorest ghettos. 童年时，她居住的地方是纽约最贫穷的贫民区之一。

to live in ghetto conditions 在贫民区中生活

in the past, an area of a city where Jews were made to live

a part of society or group that is in some way divided from the main part

Brought up in what he describes as "a middle class ghetto", he imagined that all people were as privileged as he was. 自称从小在“一个中产阶级聚居区”长大的他，以为所有人都享有跟他一样的待遇。