courtesan
英 [ˌkɔːtɪˈzæn]
美 [ˈkɔːrtɪzn]
n. (旧时尤指伺候富豪的)高级妓女
复数：courtesans
BNC.26576 / COCA.25424
牛津词典
noun
- （旧时尤指伺候富豪的）高级妓女
(in the past) a prostitute , especially one with rich customers
柯林斯词典
- (旧时伺候富人和有权势之人的)高级妓女
In former times, acourtesanwas a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- The story begins with a party, where the Paris courtesan, Violetta Valery, already suffering from tuberculosis, meets a long-time admirer, Alfredo Germont for the first time.
剧情开始时，身染肺痨的巴黎名交际花薇奥蕾塔，在派队上结识了已在暗中爱了她多日的青年阿芒。 - This bronze was created by Rodin in his late years. "The Old Courtesan" was once an eminent beauty, a woman to die for.
这是罗丹晚年的一个杰作，雕塑上的老妇曾是一个绮年玉貌，倾倒一世的宫女，现在是到了色衰貌减，不堪回首的暮年。 - Together with chivalrous novel and denouncement novel, as one of the main three categories of novel in modern history, the courtesan novel has not received serious and detailed studies.
狭邪小说作为近代小说史上与侠义公案小说、谴责小说鼎足而三的一个小说类型，其研究仍然处于相对薄弱状态； - In the courtesan novel, the male always holds the leading position as the saver and the female is in a subordinate situation as the observed and the enjoyed object.
狭邪小说中，男性占据主导地位，以救世主自居，女性则处于从属地位，是被欣赏、被看的对象，小说中两性地位极不平等。 - The solutions of these two problems have to base on writing and imagination of the late Qing courtesan novel about modern Shanghai.
而我们对这两个问题的考察在一定程度上可以借助于晚清狭邪小说对近代上海的书写和想象。 - I suggest that in the end, the courtesan choose the maharajah.
我建议结局时，歌妓选择邦主。 - News of their death, when they die young, reaches all their lovers at the same instant, for in Paris the lovers of any celebrated courtesan see each other every day.
如果她们年纪轻轻就死了，那么她们所有的情人都会同时得到消息；因为在巴黎，一位名妓的所有情人彼此几乎都是密友。 - Some researchers question even the historical tradition that she was a hetaera, or courtesan, and have suggested that she may actually have been married to Pericles.
一些研究人员质疑并提出说她实际上可能和伯里克利是结了婚的。 - Thinkers and poets throughout the ages have offered the courtesan the oblation of their mercy.
各个时期的思想家和诗人都把仁慈的怜悯心奉献给娼家女子。 - She greeted her brother's return with smiles, unaware, chaste young woman that she was, that in a far country a courtesan had sacrificed her own happiness to the mere mention of her name.
看见她哥哥回来她满脸微笑，这个纯洁的少女一点也不知道，仅仅为了维护她的姓氏，一个在远处的妓女就牺牲了自己的幸福。