英语释义

1. an assemblage of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful — called also beauty pageant

2. a contest or competitive situation that is likened to a traditional beauty contest especially in involving judgments made on the basis of physical attractiveness or popular appeal
… an elite automotive expo and beauty contest where cars of only the highest caliber …
— Hannah Elliott

3. a presidential primary election in which the popular vote does not determine the number of convention delegates a candidate receives
Mr. Ford and Mr. Reagan are listed in the Republican preferential primary or "beauty contest."
— Charles Mohr

4. a contest in which people judge a group of women or girls and decide which one is the most beautiful

片语

Beauty contest beauty pageant选美

Inmate Beauty Contest女囚选美

win the beauty contest赢得选美比赛

st beauty contest历史上的今天首个选美比赛

beauty contest HBz选美

WORLD BEAUTY LEAGUE CONTEST世界丽人联赛

Beach beauty contest沙滩性感泳装皇后

英汉例句

• 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。

• in other words, he will not leave a top globe-trotting job sorting out the world’s financial problems to enter a french beauty contest against party rivals.

  换句话说，斯特劳斯.卡恩才不会放弃那个处理金融问题的环球顶尖职位来参加对法国抗党派人士的选美大赛。

• tracy: i「m considering entering for the beauty contest this summer, so i must have a slender figure.

  我想参加今年夏天的选美比赛，所以我得有一个苗条的身材。

• jimenez will go on to compete in the miss spain beauty contest in 2009

  她将于2009年参加角逐西班牙小姐选美大赛。

• the cpac meeting is, among other things, a beauty contest for presidential wannabes, and most of the most ambitious republican leaders did indeed turn up to strut their stuff.

  保守派政治行动大会（cpac）对于想竞选总统的人来说，就如一场选美比赛----绝大部分有抱负的共和党人也的确露面展现了他们的风采。

• for three years the palestinian authority in the west bank backed by western paymasters has waged a beauty contest with its hamas rivals; many there remain loth to improve gaza’s odds.

  三年来，在西方财政机构支持下，位于约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦权力机构与其哈马斯对手已举办了一次选美比赛；仍有许多人并不愿提高加沙的胜率。

• this is the beauty contest that could end with the judges getting an offer they can」t refuse.

  这是一次连法官也盛情难却的选美比赛。

• 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。

• before that, of course—i mean after the telegram—we had spoken on the phone, and i had heard the story of the beauty contest a number of times.

  当然在此之前——我的意思是在接到电报后——我们通过电话，我已经听过好多回那次选美比赛的情形。

• but this beauty contest has a twist - the men dress up, the women pick the winners.

  但这场选美比赛却是由一群经过精心打扮的男性参加的，他们忘情的跳着，扭动着。

• more than 300 people took part in britain’s first plus-size beauty contest to claim the coverted miss bbw-big beautiful woman –uk 2010 title.

  超过300名英国胖妹参加英国首届「漂亮肥妹」选美大赛，争夺「肥妹小姐」的头衔。

• natalia navarro, from the bolivar province, smiles after being elected miss colombia during the annual beauty contest in cartagena

  哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳来自玻利瓦尔省的纳塔莉亚·纳瓦罗在年度选美大赛上当选哥伦比亚小姐后的微笑。

• next thing the rolling stones are being mentioned and i」m whisked off to judge the miss siberia beauty contest as a vip guest.

  我们后来还谈到了滚石，接下来我就作为特邀嘉宾担当西伯利亚小姐比赛的评委。