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。

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They are under a contract to a geisha house usually, which would be their, you know, their house where they would live as well.

他们是在合同艺妓屋，这将是他们通常，你知道，他们会住在那里。

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Very loosely descended from the geisha house tradition, hostess bars hire out women by the hour to act as companions for customers.

大体源自艺妓屋传统的舞女酒吧按小时雇佣妇女作为客人的陪侍。

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In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.

NEWYORKER: Memoirs of a Geisha