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单词 take up (or throw down) the gauntlet
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take up (or throw down) the gauntlet

Accept (or issue) a challenge: he threw down the gauntlet to cabinet colleagues...
  • We should throw down the gauntlet and challenge this absurd perception.
  • The game also lets you take up the gauntlet of 14 challenges such as trying to win promotion, or avoiding relegation in six weeks, so not to tie you down to a long season if you don't have time.
  • He then throws down the gauntlet by challenging educational reformers to come up with suitable new methods of teaching morality.
From the medieval custom of issuing a challenge by throwing one's gauntlet to the ground; whoever picked it up was deemed to have accepted the challenge
See parent entry: gauntlet
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