Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
《艺妓回忆录》，阿瑟·高顿
Ome, Japan: a geisha before a performance.
日本青梅：上台表演前的艺伎。
A Geisha talks on the phone in the backseat of a car.
一位艺妓正在轿车后座讲电话。
The term geisha literally translates to mean “entertainer.
“艺妓一词从字面上翻译是指“艺人”。
Some girls were bonded to geisha houses (okiya) as children.
有些女孩小时候就被送进艺妓屋(okiya)。
Traditionally, Geisha began their training at a very young age.
一般来讲，艺妓们很小就开始接受训练。
We also wanted people to learn more about maiko and geisha.
我们也想让更多人了解舞伎和艺伎。
There remains some confusion about the nature of the geisha profession.
人们对于艺妓的性质还存在一些疑惑。
In modern Japan, geisha and maiko are now a rare sight outside hanamachi.
日本现代，在花街之外是很难见到艺妓和舞妓的。
Then the geisha turned to her patron saying: "All this artist wants is money.
艺妓付了钱，转身对她的贵客说：“这个画师只认钱。
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。
After Japan lost the war, geisha dispersed and the profession was in shambles.
日本战败后，艺妓行业分散而混乱。
Atwood won Oscars in 2006 for "Memoirs of a Geisha" and in 2003 for "Chicago."
Atwood则以《艺伎回忆录》和《芝加哥》分别赢得2006年和2003年度的奥斯卡奖。
The gokagai of Kyoto are its five geisha districts, also known as hanamachi ("flower towns").
京都的五花街是五大艺妓聚集区，也已花街闻名。
By the 1830s, the evolving geisha style was emulated by fashionable women throughout society.
到了19世纪30年代，一些时髦女性开始效仿层出不穷的艺妓风格。
Modern geisha are not bought from poor families and brought into the geisha house as children.
现代的艺妓并非是从穷人家庭购买并且从小就送入艺妓馆进行培训的。
A geisha in Kyoto, Japan, applies the blood-red lipstick that completes her traditional makeup.
日本京都，艺伎采用血红色的唇膏来完成她的传统化妆。
The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
艺伎的含义就是艺术家，要做一个艺伎，就是要让人把我们当成一件活动的艺术品。
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。
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。
Either way, however, usually a year's training is involved before debuting either as a maiko or as a geisha.
但无论如何，在出道前舞妓与以及都少不了个把年的培训。
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。
Now, girls usually go to school until they are teenagers and then make the personal decision to train to become a geisha.
而现在，女孩们通常是先去上学，直到她们是个青少年的时候，再由自己做出决定，接受培训成为艺妓的。
Long before the 1970′s and the platform shoes, Japanese maiko (apprentice geisha) had been wearing Okobo sandals or clogs.
20世纪70年代松糕鞋出现前很久的时间，日本舞妓（学徒艺妓）就已经穿高跟木屐人字拖或者叫高跟木底鞋了。
The number of geisha peaked at 80,000 in Japan in 1928 but since then has declined to an estimated 1,000 across the country.
1928年，日本艺妓的数量达到顶峰，有8万人之多，后来不断减少，目前全国大约只剩下1000人。
The number of geisha peaked at 80,000 in Japan in 1928 but since then has declined to an estimated 1,000 across the country.
1928年，日本艺妓的数量达到顶峰，有8万人之多，后来不断减少，目前全国大约只剩下1000人。
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