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Miss Hong Kong Pageant

 

Miss Hong Kong Pageant 香港小姐競選

 

例子：The Miss Hong Kong Pageant is a beauty pageant organized annually by the leading television station in Hong Kong.

 

選美比賽英文通常以 pageant 表示，如知名的「環球小姐競選」就是 Miss Universe Pageant了。不過，pageant的讀音卻跟page無關，正確來說應該讀 /’pædʒ.ənt/。聽聽 Danny 和 Crystal 怎麼說？

 

the pageant of something 一連串傳奇歷史

 

除了選美，the pageant of something 亦指「一連串傳奇歷史」。

 

例子：This bestseller describes the pageant of Hong Kong history.   

 

“Pageant” 的同義詞有：

 

• contest

 

例子：She only entered the contest with her friend for fun but she won the contest in the end.

 

• competition

 

例子：They have decided to roll out a competition to find a designer for the new building.

 

 

crown 加冕

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：With over 170,000 votes, Grace Chan was crowned as the Miss Hong Kong winner. Sisley Choi and Moon Lau were the first and second runner-up respectively. Virginia Lau was ranked 4th while Vicky Chan came in 5th place.

 

be crowned as

 

例子：Most hongkongers were happy with Grace Chan being crowned as the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2013.

 

dethrone 罷免/褫奪后冠

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：The original winner of Miss Hong Kong 1981, Doris Law, was dethroned because she was found to have used her sister’s health documentation instead of her very own.   

 

Ranking 是排名，中文會用「冠」、「亞」、「季」來表示，英語又該怎麼說呢？

 

first/second-runner up

 

例子：There are two first runners-up in this singing contest.

 

be ranked

 

例子：Pete Sampras is one of the very few who had been ranked no. 1 for a long period of time in the tennis industry.

 

come in XXX place

 

例子：David was awarded the Best Achievement Prize because he came in 5th place in the whole form.

 

 

voting system 投票系統

 

例子：Based on the one-person-one-vote format, the voting system allowed both the celebrity judges and the general public to vote for their own Miss Hong Kong.

 

Different expressions of “vote of XXX”:

 

vote of censure 彈劾動議

 

例子：The council has proposed a vote of censure for his handling of the situation.

 

vote of confidence 信任動議

 

例子：The new government won a vote of confidence by 200 votes to 150.

 

vote of thanks 致謝意

 

例子：The chairperson has made a vote of thanks to his committee members at the closing ceremony.

 

hot favourite 大熱

 

例子：It would have been surprising if it had not been the hot favourite but the dark horse winning the pageant.

 

play favorites 親疏有別、偏私

(American English)

 

► treat one person better than others

 

例子：The manager insisted he doesn’t play favorites.

   
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