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。
• 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。
• McKenzie has competed in more than 100 pageants, and won about 20.
  麦肯齐参加了100多场舞蹈比赛，赢了大约20场。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is young people who favor holding beauty pageants.
  赞成举办选美的是年轻人。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。