He had a soft spot for geishas.

他喜欢艺妓。

Yeah. Try doubling that. It's like, back off buddy she's a waitress not a geisha.

那就再加倍吧。一边去，兄弟，她只是服务生，又不是艺妓。

Soon, however, female geisha began to appear and quickly took over the profession.

然而，很快，女性艺伎开始出现并迅速接管了这个职业。

However, patrons of the Oiran gradually began to gravitate towards the less expensive and much more socially accessible geisha.

不管怎样，花魁的顾客逐渐开始偏向于价格更低，社交性更高的艺伎。

Hurry up, you look like a geisha.

快点， 你看起来像个艺妓。

There are still geisha today – but only a handful remain compared to their golden days, less than 200.

今天仍然存在艺伎——但和她们的黄金时代相比，现在已经屈指可数了，不到200人。

It is here, in this historic entertainment quarter, that you’ll begin to catch glimpses of one of Kyoto’s most alluring traditions, the geisha.

就是在这里，这个古代的娱乐场所，您可以开始稍微窥探京都最迷人的传统景色之一，艺妓。

Young apprentice geisha were (and are) known as maiko, a term roughly translating to " woman of dance" .

年轻的学徒艺妓被称为舞伎（maiko），这个名词粗略地翻译为“ 舞蹈的女性”。

I can't believe you are going to Kyoto for the summer to learn to be a geisha.

真不敢相信夏天你要去京东学做一个艺妓。

The Oiran even lodged an official complaint with the government, stating that the geisha were taking their business by stealing their customers.

花魁甚至向政府提出了官方投诉，称艺伎是在通过窃取客户来开展业务。