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

• a woman who cohabits with an important man
  Synonym:concubinedoxyparamour

双语例句

• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。