courtesan

noun

1. （旧时尤指伺候富豪的）高级妓女
   (in the past) a prostitute , especially one with rich customers

1. (旧时伺候富人和有权势之人的)高级妓女
   In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. I suggest that in the end, the courtesan choose the maharajah.
   我建议结局时，歌妓选择邦主。
7. 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。
8. 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！
9. Courtesan: Well, the Temple is right next door, honey.
   女：那么，神庙在那边，亲爱的。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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；
13. 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。
14. 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；
15. Romance of the Tang Dynasty of the prostitute attention, create typical characters, reflects their personality and their tragic fate, plots, representative strong, so for us to create a true to life of the courtesan.
    唐宋传奇对妓女的关注，塑造了具有典型意义的人物形象，真实地反映了她们的性格及其悲惨的命运，情节丰富、代表性强，从而为我们塑造出一个个有血有肉的妓女形象。
16. Although the three chapters of this paper have not formed the strict linear logic, they can be complemented and explained by each other, which can help us be more rational when considering the unique historical value of late Qing courtesan novel.
    虽然这篇论文的三章之间并没有形成严密的线性逻辑关系，但它们可以相互补充，相互说明，使我们更加理性地思考晚清狭邪小说独特的史料价值。
17. 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。

noun

1. a woman who cohabits with an important man

   Synonym:    concubinedoxyparamour