courtesan
英 [ˌkɔːtɪˈzæn]
美 [ˈkɔːrtɪzn]
n. (旧时尤指伺候富豪的)高级***
复数：courtesans
BNC.26576 / COCA.25424
牛津词典
noun
- （旧时尤指伺候富豪的）高级***
(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***
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
- Courtesan houses along the Qinhua River constituted a source of indulgence and decadence.
秦淮的妓院，更成为南京逸乐生活的重要源头。 - 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。 - Courtesan: well, the temple is right next door, honey. they've been harassing us for years, you'd probably enjoy yourself there more anyway, prude!
女：那么，神庙在那边，亲爱的。他们已经让我们烦恼好几年了，总之你大概会喜欢那里，假正经！ - 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。 - 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。 - I confess I became a courtesan, traded yearning for power, welcomed many rather than be owned by.
我坦白我成为在男人之间周旋的交际花，以欲望交换权利，奉迎着很多的男人，却不仅为某个男人所有。 - 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***就牺牲了自己的幸福。 - 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。 - I suggest that in the end, the courtesan choose the maharajah.
我建议结局时，歌妓选择邦主。 - 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；