beauty contest

英 [ˈbjuːti kɒntest]

美 [ˈbjuːti kɑːntest]

n.  选美比赛; “选美式”竞争(指互相竞争的公司或个人为说服某人采用其服务而举行的展示活动)

牛津词典

noun

• 选美比赛
  a competition to choose the most beautiful from a group of women
• “选美式”竞争（指互相竞争的公司或个人为说服某人采用其服务而举行的展示活动）
  an occasion on which several competing companies or people try to persuade sb to use their services

柯林斯词典

• 选美比赛
  Abeauty contestis a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.

双语例句

• Ann: Well. There's a beauty contest in Thailand just for fat beauties.
  泰国有一个选美比赛是专门为胖美人们而设的。
• She took the first place in the beauty contest.
  她在选美比赛中得了第一名。
• He was a judge at the beauty contest.
  他是那次选美比赛的一名评审。
• It was in Moldova that Olga took won a beauty contest.
  奥尔加在摩尔多瓦获得了选美比赛的冠军。
• Outside pressure and changes in society, therefore, brought about changes in the beauty contest world.
  外界的压力和社会的变化，因而，世界性的选美活动带来了改变。
• Without letting anyone know, Debbie entered the beauty contest.
  黛比没让任何人知道，悄悄地参加了选美比赛。
• The disappointed runner-up in the beauty contest damned with faint praise the newly crowned queen.
  在比美赛中失失望的亚军明褒实贬新选出的王后。
• Have you ever participated any beauty contest before?
  以前有否参加过任何选美比赛？
• Pity there ain't a Cabanatuan beauty contest.
  真可惜甲万那端没有选美比赛。
• The final of the earliest recorded beauty contest in Britain took place, at Newcastle upon Tyne.
  英国最早有记载的选美赛比赛在泰恩河畔的纽卡斯尔举行。