gauntlet

• n. 长手套；（古时士兵戴的）金属护手；夹道鞭笞的刑罚；交叉射击；严酷考验

1.金属手套，词源同wind, 缠绕，编织，即织成的手套。在中世纪向别人发出挑战时则掷手套于地，如果对方捡起手套，则是接受挑战。

2.严酷考验，来自瑞典语gatlopp, 即gate leap. 原为军事术语，当某人犯错误的时候，要从人墙里穿过去，接受同伴的鞭笞，棍杖。

1. to offer or accept a challenge;

"threw down the gauntlet"

"took up the gauntlet"

2. a glove of armored leather; protects the hand

3. a glove with long sleeve

4. a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim

gauntlet

gauntlet: The gauntlet of ‘run the gauntlet’ has no etymological connection with gauntlet ‘glove’ [15]. The latter was borrowed from Old French gantelet, a diminutive form of gant ‘glove’. This was originally a Germanic loanword, with surviving relatives in Swedish and Danish vante ‘glove’. As for ‘running the gauntlet’, it was to begin with ‘running the gantlope’, in which gantlope signified ‘two lines of people armed with sticks, who attacked someone forced to run between them’.

This was borrowed in the 17th century from Swedish gatlopp, a descendant of Old Swedish gatulop ‘passageway’; this was a compound noun formed from gata ‘way’ (related to English gate, gait) and lop ‘course’ (related to English leap and lope). Under the influence of gauntlet ‘glove’, English changed gatlopp to gantlope, and thence to gantlet (now restricted in use to an ‘overlapping section of railway track’) and gauntlet (as in ‘run the gauntlet’).
=> gait, gate, leap, lope

gauntlet (n.1)

"glove," early 15c., gantelet, from Old French gantelet (13c.) "gauntlet worn by a knight in armor," also a token of one's personality or person, and in medieval custom symbolizing a challenge, as in tendre son gantelet "throw down the gauntlet" (a sense found in English by 1540s). The Old French word is a semi-diminutive or double-diminutive of gant "glove" (12c.), earlier wantos (7c.), from Frankish *wanth-, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz "glove" (cognates: Middle Dutch want "mitten," East Frisian want, wante, Old Norse vöttr "glove," Danish vante "mitten"), which apparently is related to Old High German wintan, Old English windan "turn around, wind" (see wind (v.)).

The name must orig. have applied to a strip of cloth wrapped about the hand to protect it from sword-blows, a frequent practice in the Icelandic sagas. [Buck]

Italian guanto, Spanish guante likewise are ultimately from Germanic. The spelling with -u- was established from 1500s.

gauntlet (n.2)

military punishment in which offender runs between rows of men who beat him in passing; see gantlet.

She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.

在大会主题发言中，她言辞犀利地回应挑战。

柯林斯例句

Luxury car firm Jaguar has thrown down the gauntlet to competitors by giving the best guarantee on the market.

豪华轿车生产商捷豹公司推出了市场上最诱人的保修服务，向竞争对手发出了挑战。

柯林斯例句

Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle.

谁要是接受挑战，向首相叫板，都将经历一场鏖战。

柯林斯例句

The trade unions have thrown down the gauntlet.

工会已经提出挑战.

辞典例句

He ran the gauntlet of newspaper attacks.

他遭到报纸的抨击.

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Are you ready to pick up the gauntlet?

你做好应战准备了 吗 ?

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And she brought you through the Gauntlet by herself?

那是她自己把你们带出哥特列特的了?

电影对白

Frank was supposed to take you down the Gauntlet, right?

弗兰克因该带你们驶下哥特列特的, 对 吗 ?

电影对白

He said he always wanted to try the Gauntlet.

他说过他一直都想划过这个交叉口的.

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I'd like to try the Gauntlet myself, but people aren't allowed to do it anymore.

我也想自个划过这个哥特列特但这里的人不会再允许那样做了.

电影对白

He stood between his teammates and snapped on his own Jackal gauntlet.

他站在队友间拿出了自己的豺狼人护臂.

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Once Bill threw down the gauntlet, I had to fight.

一旦比尔提出挑战, 我就得迎战.

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He threw down the gauntlet and I accepted his challenge.

我接到了他的挑战书,并答应与他决斗.

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Fallen World , separated from the material realm by the Gauntlet.

影域:下界的精神域与朝生暮死区域, 通过险棘将它与物质领域隔离开来.

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The American colonies threw down the gauntlet to the motherland.

美洲殖民地向宗主国挑战.

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