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

• There is little hope for Mary to win the beauty contest.
  玛丽在选美比赛中获胜的希望不大。
• 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。
• 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？
• JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES once likened investing to judging a beauty contest.
  约翰梅纳德凯恩斯曾经将投资来衡量一个选美比赛。
• Mommy, I'm going to be in a beauty contest.
  妈，我会参加选美。
• He was a judge at the beauty contest.
  他是那次选美比赛的一名评审。
• Diana won the beauty contest yesterday.
  黛安娜在昨天的选美比赛中获胜。
• 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。
• 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。