Susan: Well, fine. I won't enter it in any kidney beauty contests.

Most people agree that the business of beauty contests began in America.

很多人认同选美的商业活动始于美国。

She's won a lot of beauty contests.

她在许多选美大赛中获胜。

And boyfriend Arin Andrews, 16, was born a girl called Emerald who excelled at ballet dancing and won beauty contests.

她的男朋友阿瑞安德鲁斯今年16岁，之前是女孩名叫艾莫瑞德，擅长跳芭蕾，还曾赢得过选美比赛。

For all you know, her kid could end up winning beauty contests.

这孩子说不定将来能拿选美冠军。

Smale responded by giving up her title and taking a hiatus from beauty contests, and has pledged to use her experience to combat body shaming.

瑞伊退出了选美比赛，放弃了冠军头衔，还以身作则对抗形体歧视。

Going in for the beauty contests at this level is not all cakes and ale. we've a lot to think about.

参加这类水平的选美比赛并不是一种享受，我们有许多东西需要考虑。

School boards must then decide how to spend the money they receive.

学区董事会会决定如何使用他们收到的钱。

Parents can request that their local school boards require all food and beverages served or sold at school to meet accepted nutritional standards.

家长可题要求当地的学校委员会命令所有的学校内售出的食品和饮料达到公认的营养标准。

The study commission by the National School Boards Association and the Center for Public Education provides this profile of a typical American teenager would not immediately go on the college.

美国全国学校董事会协会公众教育中心的研究委员会提供的文件表明，典型的美国青年人不会在高中毕业后立即进入大学。

Open education policy: Third, governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make open education a high priority.

开放教育政策：第三，政府、学校理事会、学院和大学应当使开放教育具有更高优先权。

In Wisconsin, two state legislators want to require school boards to designate restrooms as exclusive to one gender, and gender is defined as the "physical condition of being male or female." ( In neighboring Minnesota, the Democratic-led State Senate defeated a similar bill.)

在威斯康星州，两位州立法委员想要求校委会规定卫生间仅供某一种性别的人使用，性别标准根据“身体性征”界定（在旁边的明尼苏达州，以民主党为主的州参议院否决了类似的提案）。

And since then, we have seen what's possible when reform isn't just a top-down mandate, but the work of local teachers and principals; school boards and communities.

到时，我们会看到可能改革不只是从上到下的命令，而是当地教师的工作和行为准则，学校推广宣传和运行。

Americans pay taxes to a state as well as to the federal government, the state government and local school boards provide money for public education.

美国人要向州政府和联邦政府交税，州政府和当地的学校董事会则为公立学校出费用。

Ann Bryant is executive director of the National School Boards Association.

Ann Bryant是全国学校董事会协会（National School Boards Association）执行主任。

Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.

在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。

The Wake County model will tempt many other school boards if the Supreme Court forces districts to scale back or dismantle race-based integration schemes.

如果最高法院强制各地区倒退或废除性别融合方案，威克郡的模式就会对其他许多校董会形成诱惑。

Of course, it may also take a lot of work to convince organizations and school boards to cooperate in a field where adoption is notoriously slow.

当然，要说服公司与学校董事会就儿童教育进行合作也不是一件容易事，众所周知，在这一领域校企合作历来迟缓。

Ouchi says that Houston and Seattle had impressive results when their school boards and superintendents adopted this approach in the1990s.

奥奇表示在二十世纪九十年代学校董事会和管理者采用这个方案时，休斯敦和西雅图都发生了很大变化。

Even without this judicial complication, America's school boards are being sorely tested by economics and geography.

即使没有法院一方的纠葛，美国学校的董事会也受到了经济和地理因素的严峻考验。

Proactive classroom control begins with setting the tenor in your room in the first few minutes, before behaviors can become problems. Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.

「先发制人式」班级管制，开始于前几分钟内说清楚常规，以免发生问题。在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。