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

• She looked very excited to hear that she won the first prize in the beauty contest.
  听说她在选美比赛中得了一等奖，她看起来很激动。
• 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。
• Today is the Beauty Contest of fruit.
  今天是水果家族的选美比赛。
• She took the first place in the beauty contest.
  她在选美比赛中得了第一名。
• Have you ever entered a beauty contest? Yes, I have.
  你有没有曾经参加过一次美妙的比赛？
• She has been living in a goldfish bowl since she won the beauty contest.
  自从她选美获胜后，她就像活在金鱼缸中，任人参观，毫无隐私。
• Pity there ain't a Cabanatuan beauty contest.
  真可惜甲万那端没有选美比赛。
• Life is one beauty contest after another.
  人生就象一个接一个的选美会。
• 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。
• Sofia met producer and future husband Carlo Ponti while competing in another beauty contest.
  在另一次选美比赛中，她遇到了制片人即后来成她丈夫的卡洛·庞帝。