核心畫面
At the root is one gesture: someone stands in front of you and says 'prove it' — face me, answer me, show me you can. From that call come the friendly version (I dare you to compete with me), the doubting version (I don't just accept that — justify it), the testing version (this is hard enough to make you show what you've got), and the guard's version (stop, say who you are). One demand, 'stand and prove yourself', pointed in different directions.
可以想成底層是一個動作：有人站到你面前說「拿出來給我看」——來面對我、回答我、證明你行。從這個帶著對峙味道的喊話，分…更多收起
可以想成底層是一個動作：有人站到你面前說「拿出來給我看」——來面對我、回答我、證明你行。從這個帶著對峙味道的喊話，分出幾個方向：友善版是「我邀你來跟我較量」，質疑版是「我不照單全收，你得說清楚」，考驗版是「這夠難，逼你拿出真本事」，還有守衛版是「站住，報上你是誰」。同一個「站出來、證明你自己」的要求，指向不同的場合。原始詞典資料23 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
challengenoun/ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒ/
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A confrontation; a dare.
- Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
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A confrontation; a dare.
- a challenge to the king's authority
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA confrontation; a dare.
- Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
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A confrontation; a dare.
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A confrontation; a dare.
- The somewhat-shattered San Francisco also managed to make it out, although not before she'd come within seconds of being blown out of the water by Helena, as the two had lost contact in the dark and the flagship had loomed back out of the murk with no one and nothing available to answer the light cruiser's challenge - the radio, the whistle, the signal lights, the flags, et cetera, had all been destroyed. Luckily, one of the few surviving signalmen found a small handheld signal light and managed to blink out the ship's hull number.
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A confrontation; a dare.
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A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
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lawA procedure or action.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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rarelawA procedure or action.
- Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.
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lawA procedure or action.
- We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.
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lawA procedure or action.
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hobbieshuntinglifestyleThe opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
challengeverb/ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒ/
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To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
- By this I challenge him to single fight.
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To dare (someone).
- [...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.
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To dispute (something); to contest.
- to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
- In the April 2020 Roade fatality, the worker who died "was reputedly in the habit of walking on the line when he didn't need to". Tragically, no one challenged him about it.
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To call something into question or dispute.
- New information challenged old hypotheses.
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lawTo make a formal objection to a juror.
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To be difficult or challenging for.
- Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.
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obsoleteTo claim as due; to demand as a right.
- Challenge better terms.
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obsoleteTo censure; to blame.
- I may be more challenged for my inconsiderate Boldness
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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governmentmilitarypoliticsTo question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
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To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
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To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- I mean if you go in and want to challenge an exam it cost you half of your course money. If you don't pass the exam, that money is credited toward taking the course. What have you got to lose to challenge an exam, or do a competency exam?
- The only time I went to class was to challenge an exam. My marks were good. But there was one class I never missed, “Nursing Process and the New Philosophy in Nursing.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。