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

• This is a beauty contest where all the contestants are ugly.
  这好像是一个所有参赛者都是丑八怪的选美比赛。
• 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 will enter for a beauty contest.
  她将参加选美比赛。
• You look like you won a beauty contest.
  你看起来像是赢了选美比赛一样。
• We spotted the winner of the beauty contest the moment she appeared.
  她一出现，我们就认准她将在选美比赛中获胜。
• He was a judge at the beauty contest.
  他是那次选美比赛的一名评审。
• 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。
• My neighbor won the second prize of a beauty contest.
  我邻居赢了选美比赛的第二名。
• 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。
• Pity there ain't a Cabanatuan beauty contest.
  真可惜甲万那端没有选美比赛。