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

选美比赛
Abeauty contestis a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.

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。
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。
She won the second prize in a beauty contest.
她在一次选美比赛中赢得了亚军。
She took the first place in the beauty contest.
她在选美比赛中得了第一名。
Katie is going to enter a beauty contest.
卡蒂即将参加选美比赛。
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。
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。
Pity there ain't a Cabanatuan beauty contest.
真可惜甲万那端没有选美比赛。
My neighbor won the second prize of a beauty contest.
我邻居赢了选美比赛的第二名。
He was a judge at the beauty contest.
他是那次选美比赛的一名评审。