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？
• 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。
• 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。
• He thought it was time that he throw down the gage to his opponent.
  他认为向对手挑战的时候到了。
• No wall that enough love will not throw down;
  没有爱摧毁不了的围墙；
• For god's sake, Tom smith, throw down your arms.
  看上帝的分上，汤姆？史密斯，马上放下枪械投降吧。
• If you want to throw down, fine.
  你要想这样的话，那就来吧。
• 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”
• 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。
• 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。