A surprising number were built at the behest of women, including princesses, courtesans and merchants' wives, who wished to attain immortality through the gift of water.

在女性要求下，包括公主、交际花和商人，她们希望通过水礼物获得永生，因此建造了数量惊人雕像。

The sepoys joined a long queue of people tax collectors, local judges, palace courtesans all bitter that a perfectly workable regime had been demolished by the British in the name of officiousness.

这些士兵和收税人员、地方法官和宫女一样都愤愤不平，这个一切正常行省竟被好事英国人给废除了。

The following 1703 play is a domestic tragedy based on an actual event: the double suicide of Tokubei, a dealer in soy sauce, and Ohatsu, a courtesan.

酱油商人德兵卫和名妓浅井初共同殉情故事。

As the Geisha's popularity grew, the Oiran courtesans for whom they worked began to grow increasingly resentful of them.

随着艺伎受欢迎程度提高，为之工作花魁开始对他们越来越不满。

The original role of geisha was as an assistant to the Oiran, who were high-class courtesans, dressed in amazingly flashy kimono and wearing heavy hairstyles.

艺伎原始角色是花魁副手 ，穿着华丽和服，戴着厚重发型。

" When we staged 'La Traviata' (Verdi's opera about a Parisian courtesan), we had water instead of wine, " Mr Fanni recalls.

“当我们上演威尔第歌剧《茶花女》时，我们喝是水而不是酒，”尼先生回忆道。

Courtesans began adopting her style and making increasingly elaborate performances set to the music of the shamisen, a three-stringed lute-like instrument.

名妓也开始发挥自己风格 在三弦琴(一种类似鲁特琴三弦乐器)音乐伴奏下 表演变得越来越精致。

At the Salon of 1865, his scandalous " Olympia" , depicting a naked courtesan, a black maid and an alert cat, provoked outrage, while Degas's conventional painting, " Scene of War in the Middle Ages" , went unnoticed.

在1865年沙龙展上，他那引起轰动《奥林匹亚》，描绘了一个裸体贵妇、一个黑人女仆和一只警觉猫，引发了公众愤怒，而德加传统作品《中世纪战争场景》则未被注意。

Influential female intellectuals have included Veronica Franco, a poet and courtesan, Sara Coppio Sullam, a writer and champion of Judaism, and more recently that most eminent of adopted Venetians, Peggy Guggenheim.

有影响力女性知识分包括诗人兼妓女维罗妮卡佛朗哥、 作家兼犹太教拥护者萨拉科皮奥苏拉姆，以及最近最杰出威尼斯人佩吉古根海姆。

She is the newspaper editor of the Willow Creek Crier, which is a staunch suffragist and, Sarah, the secret translator of a collection of scandalous memoirs from 16th century Venetian courtesans.

她是《柳树溪报》，报是一个坚定女权主义者， 萨拉，还是16世纪威尼斯名妓们不光彩回忆录秘密翻译者。

And it seemed that all the mighty dead appeared before her; and she saw grim tyrants, and painted courtesans, and Roman emperors in their purple, and sultans of the East.

似乎所有强大死者都出现在她面前；她看到了冷酷暴君、彩绘妓女、穿紫袍罗马皇帝和东方苏丹。

Guests attended it, including Rodrigo's daughter and Cesare's sister Lucrezia,   who partied alongside fifty " honest prostitutes." During dinner, the guests were entertained  by naked, dancing courtesans.

宾客们都来参加宴会，其中包括罗德里戈女儿和切萨雷妹妹卢克雷齐娅，她们与五十名“诚实妓女”一起狂欢。晚餐期间，客人们欣赏着裸体跳舞妓女。

However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon.

然而，大多数妇女既不是妓女也不是妓女；整个夏天午后， 他们也不会坐着将哈巴狗紧紧抱在尘土飞扬天鹅绒上。

Satine is the star of the Moulin Rouge and her character is one part can-can dancer, one part cabaret singer and one part courtesan.

- Satine 是红磨坊明星，她角色是康康舞者、卡巴莱歌唱家和交际花。

A beautiful courtesan has been my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant was my teacher, and some gamblers with dice.

一位美丽名妓做了我很长时间老师，一个富有商人也当过我老师，还有一些玩骰赌徒。

Cat knew that the men off the Brazen Monkey would not care about the name of a courtesan's mother, though. Instead, she asked them for tidings of the Seven Kingdoms, and the war.

猫儿知道" 癞皮猴" 上人们不关心交际花母亲名字，她转而询问七大王国消息和战争情况。

Cao Xueqin implies in the book that Miao Yu will be abducted by bandits, and will be humiliated, and may even be trapped in the brothel and become a courtesan.

曹雪琴在书中暗示， 苗羽会被土匪绑架，会受到羞辱， 甚至可能被困在妓院， 成为。

" I'll be the courtesan to your emperor, " simpered the fiend.

“我会成为你们皇帝妓女，”恶魔笑着说。

Chinese and Indian courtesans and Turkish odalisques were equally skillful.

中国和印度名妓以及土耳其宫女同样技艺高超。

As a young man, he is known to have engaged in a series of intensely passionate relationships with courtesans in Suzhou, most notably with a woman named Hou Huiqing.

众所周知，他年轻时曾与苏州妓女发生过一系列激烈关系，其中最著名是与一位名叫侯惠卿女。