throw down

英 [θrəʊ daʊn]

美 [θroʊ daʊn]

公然挑衅; 大胆挑战

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 公然挑衅;大胆挑战
  If youthrow downa challenge to someone, you do something new or unexpected in a bold or forceful manner that will probably cause them to reply or react equally strongly.
  1. The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses...
     地方议会通过了一项法律，允许企业私有，这向中央政权发起了新的挑战。
  2. Government ministers have been responding to the challenge thrown down by their former colleague.
     政府部长们一直在应对从前的同事的公然挑战。

双语例句

• Government ministers have been responding to the challenge thrown down by their former colleague.
  政府部长们一直在应对从前的同事的公然挑战。
• And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
  2你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话。为何这样行呢。
• A white bird came to the tree every time, and whenever she expressed a wish, the bird would throw down to her what she had wished for.
  不久，有一只小鸟来树上筑巢，她与小鸟交谈起来。后来她想要什么，小鸟都会给她带来。
• I can still get down some stuff and throw down a decent line, I think.
  我还有能力漂漂亮亮滑几次，我想。
• Like a writer being criticized for his first work, Hung-chien was so furious that he was all set to throw down his pen, burn the draft, and not write anything more.
  他像初次发表作品的文人给人批评了一顿，气得要投笔焚稿，不肯再写。
• To release or throw down in a large mass.
  倾倒大量放出或扔下扔下了三明治与啤酒。
• No matter before have had how many the honor, now must throw down.
  不管以前自己有过多少的荣誉，现在必须丢下。
• You have lost the battle, throw down your arms, and we will show mercy!
  你们打败了，放下武器，我们就饶了你们！
• No one bothered you: you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own boss away from it all for a few hours on any day that the weather did not throw down its rain.
  没人打扰你：你是猎人、梦想家，是自己的老板，在不下雨的日子里，你可以有几个小时的时间摆脱所有的烦恼。
• If you want to throw down, fine.
  你要想这样的话，那就来吧。