pageants

英 [ˈpædʒənts]

美 [ˈpædʒənts]

n.  穿古代服装的游行; 再现历史场景的娱乐活动; 选美比赛; 内容繁杂有趣的场面; 盛大华丽的情景
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柯林斯词典

• 盛装游行（或庆典）；露天历史剧
  Apageantis a colourful public procession, show, or ceremony. Pageants are usually held out of doors and often celebrate events or people from history.
• N-COUNT 选美比赛
  Apageantor abeauty pageantis a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
  1. In August 1968 women held a demonstration at the Miss America Beauty Pageant.
     1968年8月，妇女在美国小姐选美大赛举行了游行示威。

双语例句

• I'm not just talking about the recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance or the Thanksgiving pageants at school or the fireworks on the Fourth of July, as wonderful as those things may be.
  我指的不仅仅是诵读效忠誓言（PledgeofAllegiance），不仅仅是学校热烈庆祝感恩节的活动，也不仅仅是7月4日盛放的烟火，不论这些场景多么激动人心。
• Critics claim that exposing children barely old enough to walk to the pressures of beauty pageants is bad for the children and indicates something is wrong with society.
  评论家宣称，让刚学会走路的小孩子暴露在选美的压力下很不好，这显示出我们的社会有问题。
• She has competed in three beauty pageants.
  她参加过三次选美大赛。
• Forget beauty pageants and tween talent shows, modern stage parents have a new outlet to push their children into the fame game: the Internet.
  别管什么选美和才艺比赛了，现在的爸爸妈妈可以通过网络让自己的孩子一夜成名。
• I don` t know if Ella wants to do pageants but I don` t think it will damage her.`
  但我想评委看重的是她天然的可爱。我不知道艾拉以后是否想参加选美比赛，但我觉得这并不会伤害到她。
• Says one pageant mother: "I know people who have spent so much on pageants that they lost their shirts – and their homes."
  一位选美参赛者的妈妈说：“我认识一些在选美上花了很多钱的人，他们最后不但落到身无分文的下场，甚至还失去了他们的房子。”
• Does your country need someone to drive around and watch pageants and shake hands with politicians?
  你的国家需要人到处巡游，出席盛会，并和政治家握手吗？
• She only learnt to walk five months ago, but 'Baby Beyonc' is already strutting her stuff on stage at pageants.
  虽然她五个月之前才刚学会走路，但是这个被人们称作宝贝碧昂斯的小宝宝已经开始在各种盛会的舞台上展露风采了。
• Parents claim that the pageants make their children happy, and teach them self-confidence.
  父母们宣称，选美让他们的孩子快乐，并教给他们自信。
• And for the custom, it is fashionable for a child to name after Buddha, for women to dress in Buddhist style, and for setting up feasts and pageants to follow Buddha's birth date.
  第四，在生活习俗上，生子取名用佛号、妇女化妆用佛装（妆）、节日庆典遵佛诞等成为时尚。