Basic Needs

['bju:ti]
: -ties
Everyday Expressions
n.
She was a famous beauty in her youth.
n.
We shall never forget the beauty of the old Beijing.
n.
The beauty of this machine is its simplicity.

beautify
beautiful

beauty contest
beauty salon

Linguistic Skill
useful Phrases
--- beauty aid
--- Beauty Queen
--- Beauty Guide
--- beauty spot
Idioms & Slang
beauty sleep --- ()
the beauty of sth ---
beauty and the beast ---

Communicating Clearly
Street Talks
A: Mom it hurts.
B: This black eye you got in the fight is a real beauty, huh?!
A: Please! Mom!
Saving petrol, you know, thats the beauty of buying a small car.
The beauty of his new job is that he works his own hours.
A: Why dont you come with us?
B: I need my beauty sleep, you know.

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

And now for your listening and viewing pleasure, direct from Hollywood,
California, our very own beatnik beauty, lets give a big round of applause
to the luscious Bobby Dylan.

Jesse Jackson: Its beautiful to be black, but beauty is not

enough.
Crowd Leader: What do you want?
Crowd Response: Black power!
Proverbs
Beauty is but skin-deep.

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 Quotations
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ya know on earth, and all
ya need to know.
John Keats (1795-1821), English poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good

than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian
Gray, ch. 17 (1891).