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
pageant的复数

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

• 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。
• 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。
• The days leading up to Thanksgiving Day often featured school pageants emphasizing peace, harmony and the golden prospects for all Americans.
  那时候，在快到感恩节的日子里，学校往往举行着重点在于和平、和谐以及全体美国人的光明前景的特色庆祝活动。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• Despite coming under fire from fellow parents, Jenny and mechanic husband Steve, 29, will continue to chaperone their daughters to pageants across the country.
  虽然受到其他许多父母的质疑，珍妮和丈夫&29岁的机械师史蒂夫，还将会带女儿参加全国各地的选美比赛。
• 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。
• It is young people who favor holding beauty pageants.
  赞成举办选美的是年轻人。