Even the great hammams of Istanbul felt the pinch.

即使是伊斯坦布尔的大浴场也感到了压力。

But though the pandemic accelerated the decline of hammams, it began much earlier.

但是，尽管疫情加速了公共浴场的衰落，但它的衰落其实很早就开始了。

Strictly segregated by gender, under Ottoman rule hammams became hubs for business, socialising and gossip.

在奥斯曼帝国的统治下，浴场严格按照性别分开，于是浴场成了商业、社交和八卦的中心。

Like many cities, Antakya (Antioch in antiquity) once boasted many more hammams, and before that, lavishly mosaicked Roman baths.

和许多城市一样，安塔基亚（古代的安提阿）曾经拥有许多公共浴场，在那之前，还有奢华的马赛克罗马浴场。

Locals can help; after all, the hammam has been there for over 300 years.

当地人可以帮你找到它；毕竟，这个公共浴场已经存在了300多年。

In Turkey hammam culture remains strong, but the downturn is showing.

在土耳其，公共浴场文化仍然很盛行，但衰退逐渐显现。

Legend has it that Cairo once boasted a hammam for each day of the year; today it has fewer than a dozen.

传说开罗曾经拥有浴场之多可以供人们在一年里每天去一家；如今，那里的浴场只有不到12家。

You live in these quite extravagant compounds with swimming pools and cinemas and hammams and golf courses.

你住在这些非常奢华的大院里， 有游泳池、电影院、土耳其浴室和高尔夫球场。

A fuel and electricity crisis had left many Lebanese without hot water at home-but hammams elsewhere are reviving too.

燃料和电力危机使得许多黎巴嫩人家里没有热水——但其他地方的公共浴场也在复苏。

Yeni is one of only four functioning hammams in Antakya-and in March 2020 it shut for the first time in living memory.

Yeni是安塔基亚仅有的四个仍在经营的浴场之一，2020年3月，它在人们记忆中首次关门。