gauntlet
gauntlet 英 [ˈgɔ:ntlət] 美 [ˈɡɔntlɪt, ˈɡɑnt-]
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
名词复数:gauntlets
- A gauntlet is a glove covered in steel that was worn in suits of armor, but it also means punishment or, when "throwing down the gauntlet," a challenge.
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- 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
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1. Designs at Google must pass through a gauntlet of smart criticism from diverse people intense quantitative testing and a culture where everything is shared openly.
谷歌的设计师必须经历很多人的明智批评，高强度定量测验，以及完全共享的文化的严酷考验。
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2. In Jeremiah 32:27 God says, "I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?" (NIV) It is almost like God laying down the gauntlet saying, "I dare you.
在耶利米书32:27里上帝说，“我是主，所有人类的上帝，有什么事情对我来说是困难的吗” 这几乎是上帝下的战书 “我敢问你，想出一个我不能解决的问题。
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3. A bit of her naked arm is visible between the buff leather of the gauntlet and the sleeve of her gown; and as the day wears on its feminine smoothness becomes scarified by the stubble, and bleeds.
在她衣服的袖子和暗黄色软皮手套之间，看得见有一截裸露的胳膊露在外面；这一天慢慢过去了，女孩儿圆润的胳膊也被麦茬刺破了，流出了鲜血。
- 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" (source also of 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.1)).
- gauntlet (n.2) military punishment in which offender runs between rows of men who beat him in passing; see gantlet.
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