gauntlet

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gaunt·let /ˈɡɔːntlɪt $ ˈɡɒːnt-/ noun

1. throw down the gauntlet COMPETE WITH/TRY TO BEATto invite someone to fight or compete over a disagreement 发出挑战

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throw down the gauntlet• Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group.• At this point Morag Harkness, Sales Manager threw down the gauntlet and challenged the guys to a netball match.• Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony, including Wally Fuentes Morrison, and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet.• It's going on five years since Earl Woods threw down the gauntlet and the snickering has stopped.

2. pick up/take up the gauntlet COMPETE WITH/TRY TO BEATto accept the invitation to fight or compete over a disagreement 接受挑战

3 run the gauntlet CRITICIZEto be criticized or attacked by a lot of people 受到众人的批评[攻击]

The foreign secretary ran the gauntlet of demonstrators.

外交大臣受到了游行示威者的围攻。

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run the gauntlet• So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers' land.• John and all the celebrities had to run the gauntlet of gun muzzles.• But in announcing the move Chris Dean had to run the gauntlet of press more interested in his private life.• Yet neither of them had to run the gauntlet of hate that Barmby has experienced.• As they left afterwards, they had to run the gauntlet of television cameras and reporters.• Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.• A defendant should be required to run the gauntlet of the criminal court system only once.• They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.

4. [countableC]DCC a long glove that covers someone’s wrist and protects their hand, for example in a factory 〔工厂等用的〕长手套，防护手套

5. [countableC]PMAH a glove covered in metal, used for protection by soldiers in the past 〔旧时士兵戴的〕铁手套，金属手套

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gauntlet• Our players have to go through a gauntlet of fans to get to their cars.• It was a gauntlet tossed down to the concept that computer time was so precious that not a moment should be wasted.• The injury was caused by fighting with maces whilst not wearing a gauntlet.• As he went back to where the Percys were, four men wearing rubber gauntlets came carrying large aluminum cans.• They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.• The gauntlet is being thrown down by Pemex to the international community.

Origin gauntlet

1. (1400-1500) French gantelet, from gant “glove”