geisha

geisha

美 [ˈɡiʃə] 　英 ['ɡeɪʃə]

• n.艺伎（陪男子聊天、表演歌舞的日本女子）
• 网络艺妓；日本艺妓；日本艺伎

词形变化

复数：geishas  

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.

1. 〈外〉艺妓

英英解释

n.	1. a Japanese woman whose job is to entertain men by singing, dancing, playing music, and making conversation

例句

Becoming a geisha is now entirely voluntary, and women who are not the children of geisha can now become geisha.

如今，想成为艺妓完全是凭自愿原则，而那些非科班从小入行的女性也能成为一名艺妓。

The only major role men play in geisha society is that of guest, though women sometimes take that role as well.

男人们在其间扮演着他们最主要的角色——客人，虽然妇女有时也充当这一角色。

at a time when few true geisha were able to work the counterfeit geisha usurped the meaning of the word in the eyes of many foreigners.

而此时没有真正的艺妓服务，假冒的艺妓玷污了在许多外国人眼中的这个词的含义。

Holywood's Golden Globe Awards seem to be going Asian this year. as filmmaker " Memoirs Of A Geisha" s Ziyi Zhang.

荷里活金球奖今年花落亚洲，《艺妓回忆录》的中国演员张子怡得奖了。下为自述。

A woman above 21 is considered too old to be a maiko and becomes a full geisha upon her initiation into the geisha community.

如果是21岁以上的女人，做舞妓就太老了，所以一开始就可以做艺妓。

The appeal of a high-ranking geisha to her typical male guest has historically been very different from that of his wife.

男顾客对于高级艺妓的垂青和对其妻子的眷顾是不同的，历来便是如此。

Perhaps the survival of geisha culture reflects the fact that Japan is still a fine country for feuding old men.

艺伎文化的保存大概反映了一个事实：日本的权力中心仍旧以老年男性为主。

The word 'geisha' itself, of course, doesn't mean prostitute at all, that means artistic person.

“艺伎”字的本身，当然，并不意味着妓女，这意味着艺术的人。

To a man, geisha can only be a half wife, we are the wives not in lightful, and yet to learn of kindness after so mush unkindness.

对一个男人来说，艺伎只能作为半个妻子，我们是黑暗中的妻子，而且在遭遇许多不善之后还要学习去善待。

There is no doubt that coerced sex and bidding on a new geisha's virginity occurred in the period before WWII. . .

毫无疑问，性暴力和一个新的艺妓的贞操的保留是在二战前的问题。

The fact that most of her clients are Japanese is testimony to this - geisha first, foreigner second.

她的大多数客户都是日本人就证明了她首先是一名艺伎，其次才是一名外国人。

I always think you are lucky to get offered (something like) 'Memoirs of a Geisha', but I don't think it will happen all the time.

我一直觉得能出演《艺妓回忆录》是运气，但运气不会总是眷顾你。

With naturally russet brown hair and blue eyes, Dr. Fiona Graham is not your average geisha, should such a thing exist.

雷厄姆博士（FionaGraham）有着天生的棕褐色头发和蓝眼睛，如果她能成为艺伎，那也不是普通的艺伎。

When they regrouped during the Occupation and began to flourish in the 1960s during Japan's postwar economic boom, the geisha world changed.

60年代，日本战后的经济繁荣使其行业重组，开始蓬勃发展，艺妓世界也发生了改变。

A woman entering the geisha community does not have to start out as a maiko, having the opportunity to begin her career as a full geisha.

进入艺妓圈的女人并不一定要从舞妓做起，甚至有机会直接成为艺妓。

Around the age of 20-22, the maiko is promoted to a full-fledged geisha in a ceremony called erikae (turning of the collar)[35][36].

在20-22岁左右的时候，maiko们在erikae（翻转衣领）这个仪式上升级为合格的艺妓。

Geisha , like all Japanese nouns, has no distinct singular or plural variants.

“艺妓geisha”，如同所有日语名词一样，没有单数复数形态之分。

Some break the word geisha in two explaining it as "art person. "

一些字典把geisha（艺伎）这个词分解成两个部分，解释为“艺人”。

She now charges full price for her time. Geisha remain as such until they retire.

从现在开始直到退休，她都可以做全职的艺妓并拿到相当的报酬了。

Geisha have been confused with the Edo period's high-class courtesans known as oiran, from whom they evolved.

艺妓已经被与江户时期被称为“花魁”的高级妓女混淆了，由此演变而来。

She stammers that she could be a geisha again , or better, she could die .

她支支吾吾地说她可以再去当艺妓，或者不如去死的好。

A geisha once gave him a commission for a painting.

一次，一个艺妓约请他画画。

to one's surprise ? shock ? get a shock You might get a surprise if you booked in for an elegant-sounding "geisha facial"

高档的“艺妓面部保养”或许会让你在预订后有些吃惊。

The overall aesthetic of the show could be described as "reinvented geisha" , perhaps not a theme that will persuade everyone.

整场秀的美学可以被形容成是“艺妓革新”，或许这不是一个能征服每个人的主题。

18 of the twentieth century, was gradually replaced geisha professional women, the tradition has also been has followed so far.

18世纪中叶，艺妓职业渐渐被女性取代，这一传统也一直沿袭至今。

Even so, hanamachi geisha might be horrified if categorized with hot-spring geisha.

尽管如此，如果花街艺妓被列入温泉艺妓的行列，她们仍然会感到惊恐。

She has also performed in THE SUN(2005) directed by Alexander SOKUROV and Rob MARSHALL's block buster MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA.

她还出演过亚历山大·索科洛夫2005年导演的《太阳》和罗伯·马歇尔的票房大片《艺妓回忆录》。

Modern geisha carry on an ancient profession; they privately entertain Japan's rich and powerful men and maintain total confidentiality.

现代的艺伎继承了日本的古老职业；她们私下里招待日本的富人和有权势的男人并保持着他们之间的全部机密。

I think the word geisha also illustrates this changing approach to the study of history; in this case word history.

我想单词geisha（艺伎）也证明了正在改变的历史研究方法；单词历史的研究也是这样。

She looks like a Botticelli by way of John Graham: huge gray eyes, long nose, tiny delicate mouth like a geisha.

她看起来就像约翰•格拉汉姆笔下的波提且利，大大的灰色眼睛，高挺的鼻梁，一张樱桃小嘴，娇艳欲滴。

The forerunners of the female geisha were the teenage odoriko ( "dancing girls" ): expensively-trained as chaste dancers-for-hire.

女性艺妓的前身是十几岁的odoriko（“舞女”）：她们是花费了大量的金钱进行培训，用以被聘的纯洁的舞者。

Young women who wish to become geisha now most often begin their training after completing middle school, high school, or even college.

如今，希望成为艺妓的年轻女人们大部分会在完成初中，高中，甚至是大学的学业后才开始她们的训练的。

The white make-up and elaborate kimono and hair of a maiko is the popular image held of geisha.

白色的妆容、精致的和服以及舞姬发型都是对艺妓的主流印象。

The most literal translation of geisha into English would be "artist" or "performing artist" .

如果将这一名词翻译成英文，最顺畅的译法应该是“艺术家artist”或“表演艺术家performingartist”。

There is currently no western equivalent for a geisha - they are truly the most impeccable form of Japanese art.

目前，在西方尚没有一个职业能与艺妓相媲美——艺妓确实是日本最完美的艺术。

Sayuki is keen to revive this tradition, with the aim of funding the training of new geisha, otherwise prohibitively expensive for many.

纱幸很希望恢复这一传统，从而为培养新人提供资金支持，不然学费会贵到很多人无法承担。

Geisha are regarded as prostitutes by many non-Japanese. [59] However, legitimate geisha do not engage in paid sex with clients.

许多日本以外的人都认为艺妓就是妓女，而实际上真正的艺妓是不允许与客户进行性交易的。

At the pinnacle of the complex geisha ranking system are the grand dowagers of Kyoto.

在复杂的艺妓等级系统的顶峰，是京都的“太夫”。

Geisha begin their study of music and dance when they are very young and continue it throughout their lives.

艺妓在她们很小的时候就开始学习音乐和舞蹈了，并且这个过程会贯穿她们的一生。

World War II brought a huge decline in the geisha arts because most women had to go to factories or other places to work for Japan.

第二次世界大战期间，大多数妇女为了国家要到工厂或其他地方做工，这使得艺妓艺术猛然下降。