选美比赛---beauty pageant/beauty contest

大家好，这里是小强英语。最近，那啥中华小姐的比赛又来了。这是一个选美比赛，在英语当中，我们可以把它称作beauty pageant或者是beauty contest。我们来看一下例句：

The French Senate has voted to ban beauty pageants for children under 16 in an effort to protect girls from being sexualized too early.
法国参议院已投票禁止举办16岁以下儿童的选美比赛，从而保护女孩被过早地性别差异化。

而选美比赛的冠军则叫作beauty queen，a woman who has won a beauty contest。

现今世界上有四大国际选美比赛，They are Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.世界小姐、环球小姐、国际小姐和地球小姐。

Critics of beauty contests argue that such contests reinforce the idea that girls and women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance, and that this puts tremendous pressure on women to conform to conventional beauty standards by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hair styling and even cosmetic surgery.
选美比赛的批评人士认为，这一类比赛会让人们更加以容貌来评判女性，而这给女性带来了巨大的压力，使得他们在时尚、化妆品、发型、甚至整容这些事情上花费时间和金钱，以满足传统审美标准。

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