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

• You look like you won a beauty contest.
  你看起来像是赢了选美比赛一样。
• A group of nomads have a kind of beauty contest that extend for one week every year.
  一群游牧人民每年有一种延续一周的选美大赛。
• Katie is going to enter a beauty contest.
  卡蒂即将参加选美比赛。
• She won the second prize in a beauty contest.
  她在一次选美比赛中赢得了亚军。
• 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。
• Today is the Beauty Contest of fruit.
  今天是水果家族的选美比赛。
• 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。
• Pity there ain't a Cabanatuan beauty contest.
  真可惜甲万那端没有选美比赛。
• Mommy, I'm going to be in a beauty contest.
  妈，我会参加选美。
• She will enter for a beauty contest.
  她将参加选美比赛。