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1 Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环[Yáng Yù huán] or Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗[Táng Xuán zōng], blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂|安史之乱[Ān Shǐ zhī Luàn]

王妃

wáng fēi

1 princess (in Europe)

Sample Sentences

哼，咱中国四大美人儿里面，大家首先想到的不就是杨贵妃，瞧那丰腴的身段、银盘儿似的饱满脸庞，试问人世间还有比这更美好的吗？

hèng ，zá Zhōngguó sì dà měirénr lǐmiàn ，dàjiā shǒuxiān xiǎngdào de bù jiùshì Yáng Guìfēi ，qiáo nà fēngyú de shēnduàn 、yínpánr shìde bǎomǎn liǎnpáng ，shìwèn rénshìjiān háiyǒu bǐ zhè gèng měihǎo de ma ？

Hmmph, among the four legendary Chinese beauties, doesn't everyone always think of Yang Guifei. Looking at her full-bodied figure, and her full face like a silver plate, one might well ask, is there anyone more beautiful in the mortal world?

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对对对，你就像那唐朝贵妃，可是真真儿的美人儿呢，现在这都是什么审美啊？什么A4腰啊，苹果4腿的，再这么折腾下去干脆饿死得了，一了百了。

duìduìduì ，nǐ jiù xiàng nà Tángcháo guìfēi ，kěshì zhēn zhēnr de měirénr ne ，xiànzài zhè dōu shì shénme shěnměi ā ？shénme À yāo ā ，píngguǒ 4 tuǐ de ，zài zhème zhēteng xiàqu gāncuì è sǐ dé le ，yīliǎobǎiliǎo 。

Yes, yes. You're like a Tang Dynasty imperial concubine, a real beauty. What kind of aesthetic is there around nowadays? With the waist only as wide as an A4 sheet of paper, and legs as thin as the iPhone 4. If we keep on torturing each other like this, we may as well just starve to death and be done with it.

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可惜呀，到42岁才有人把他引荐给皇帝。李白以为施展自己才能的机会到了，结果却是去给皇上和贵妃写诗作乐的。把他郁闷死了，一年多就不干了。

kěxī ya ，dào sìshíèr suì cái yǒu rén bǎ tā yǐnjiàn gěi huángdì 。Lǐ Bái yǐwéi shīzhǎn zìjǐ cáinéng de jīhuì dào le ，jiéguǒ què shì qù gěi huángshàng hé guìfēi xiěshī zuòlè de 。bǎ tā yùmèn sǐ le ，yīnián duō jiù bù gàn le 。

Unfortunately, it wasn't until he was 42 years old that someone gave him an introduction to the emperor. Li Bai thought that his opportunity to make use of his talents had come, but instead he was brought to write poems for the emperor and his concubine. It made him really depressed, and after a little more than a year, he quit.

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那你们觉得杨贵妃怎么样？长得最富态的那位。

nà nǐmen juéde Yáng Guìfēi zěnmeyàng ？zhǎng de zuì fùtài de nà wèi 。

Then what do you guys think of Yang Guifei? She was the plumpest of all of them.

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怎么什么事搁你嘴里都那么庸俗啊！杨贵妃的美是源自她的自信和内在气质！唐朝人以胖为美的审美观正好说明当时国富民强！

zěnme shénme shì gē nǐ zuǐ lǐ dōu nàme yōngsú a ！Yáng guìfēi de měi shì yuánzì tā de zìxìn hé nèizài qìzhì ！Tángcháo rén yǐpàngwéiměi de shěnměi guān zhènghǎo shuōmíng dāngshí guófùmínqiáng ！

How come everything you say is so vulgar! Yang Guifei's beauty came from her self confidence and internal style. You can see why the country was rich and powerful during the time by looking at how they saw fat as a form of beauty!

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还有看美女。哎，那时的老外可真有眼福啊！满大街都是像杨贵妃那样体态丰腴的"胖美人"！如果放到现代，应该叫性感吧。

hái yǒu kàn měinǚ 。āi ，nàshí de lǎowài kě zhēn yǒu yǎnfú a ！mǎn dàjiē dōu shì xiàng Yáng Guìfēi nàyàng tǐtài fēngyú de "pàng měirén "！rúguǒ fàngdào xiàndài ，yīnggāi jiào xìnggǎn ba 。

And they also came to see beautiful women! Foreigners in those days were really lucky to see so many beautiful women. ``Plump beauties," like Yang Guifei were all over the place. If they were in modern times, they would probably be called ``sexy!"

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