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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Courtesan: Well, the Temple is right next door, honey.
女：那么，神庙在那边，亲爱的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The earlier writers of courtesan novel although live in modern time, their ideal still keeps the mode of traditional intellectuals.
前期狭邪小说作者虽已身处近代，但他们的人生理想仍然摆脱不了传统文人的模式； - I suggest that in the end, the courtesan choose the maharajah.
我建议结局时，歌妓选择邦主。