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

• Seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball, in American football.
  在橄榄球运动中将一名带球的对方球员擒住并将其摔倒在地的行为。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up.
  扔下你的枪，并且举起双手走出来。
• Owing to poor working conditions, they decided to throw down their tools.
  因为恶劣的工作环境，他们决定罢工。
• 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。
• 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 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。