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

• Are you gonna throw down some bed pans?
  你要扔床单不成？
• The time's gonna come when I throw down the gauntlet and say," it's me or her. "
  好像是时候该我去找她挑战，问你“要我还是要她”
• I can decide the destiny, but can't be free, I can not do it to throw down anyone to ignore, canning not do it the affection of get away from the person, canning not do it to leave resolutely.
  我可以决定命运，但不可以自由，我做不到丢下任何人不管，做不到摆脱人的感情，做不到毅然离开。
• 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。
• Why want to meet you, why want to let me like you, pay since why throw down me again.
  为什么要遇到你，为什么要让我喜欢你，付出起为什么又丢下我。
• 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。
• The captain told one of the men to go aloft and throw down a rope.
  于是船长让其中的一个人在大船上扔一根绳子下去连接小船。
• The sixth shall throw down the walls of Ireland and transmute its forests into a level plain.
  第六位会把爱尔兰的城墙推倒，把森林变成平原。
• Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins ( like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts.
  爱塔的表兄表弟、堂兄堂弟（象所有的土人一样，她的亲戚数也数不过来）成群结队地爬到树上去，把成熟的大椰子扔下来。
• 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。