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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

Covid-19 has accelerated the decline of hammams, yet the steam still rises Yeni hammam in Antakya, Turkey's southernmost city, is hard to find.

新冠加速了公共浴池的衰落，但蒸汽仍在升腾Yeni hammam位于土耳其最南端城市安塔基亚，很难被找到。

One aspect of hammam culture proving resistant to the pressures of both modernity and Covid-19 is its role in wedding rituals.

公共浴场文化抵挡现代化和新冠病毒压力的一个方面是它在婚礼仪式中的作用。

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。

Today these parties, and the male equivalents, are a vital part of both tradition and modern business plans-as, against the odds, enterprising hammams struggle into a post-covid world.

如今，这些派对，以及新郎派对，已成为传统和现代商业计划的重要组成部分——有进取心的公共浴场迎难而上，艰难挤进后新冠时代。

But this intense compactness is offset by generous shared space, according to Durbach, including a big public room at the base, as well as a hammam bathhouse and pool at the top.

但根据 Durbach 的说法，这种强烈的紧凑性被宽敞的共享空间所抵消，包括底部的一个大公共房间，以及顶部的土耳其浴室和游泳池。

Bridal parties are an example of the intergenerational socialising hammams have always hosted: mothers brought daughters to the baths, where they could observe the bodies of other women at different stages of life, unselfconscious and unposed.

母亲带着女儿去浴场，在那里她们可以观察其他处于不同人生阶段的女性的身体，自然不拘束。

Mariem, a Tunisian student, affirms that, before the pandemic, she and her pals would visit the hammam about once a month for dedicated girl time: wrapped in foutas (linen towels), they ate oranges and laughed in the steam.

Mariem是一名突尼斯学生，她肯定地说，在疫情之前，她和她的朋友们每个月都会去一次公共浴场，享受专属于女孩的时光：她们裹着亚麻毛巾，吃着橘子，在蒸汽中开怀大笑。