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

• Diana won the beauty contest yesterday.
  黛安娜在昨天的选美比赛中获胜。
• She won the second prize in a beauty contest.
  她在一次选美比赛中赢得了亚军。
• 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。
• Life is one beauty contest after another.
  人生就象一个接一个的选美会。
• 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。
• 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。
• She entered for beauty contest last year and won the first prize.
  她去年参加了选美比赛，赢了一等奖。
• Mommy, I'm going to be in a beauty contest.
  妈，我会参加选美。
• Today is the Beauty Contest of fruit.
  今天是水果家族的选美比赛。
• Have you ever participated any beauty contest before?
  以前有否参加过任何选美比赛？