n. 挑战, 盘问

vt. 向...挑战, 要求, 怀疑

vi. 挑战, 对(证据等)表示异议

[经] 挑战, 申请回避

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation,
challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation,
contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See
{Calumny}.]
1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any
kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel;
also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

A challenge to controversy. --Goldsmith.

2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his
post, and demanding the countersign.

3. A claim or demand. [Obs.]

There must be no challenge of superiority.
--Collier.

4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first
finding the scent of their game.

5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court
martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held
incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain
person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his
cause. --Blackstone

6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote.
The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U.
S.]

{Challenge to the array} (Law), an exception to the whole
panel.

{Challenge to the favor}, the alleging a special cause, the
sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and
office it is to decide upon it.

{Challenge to the polls}, an exception taken to any one or
more of the individual jurors returned.

{Peremptory challenge}, a privilege sometimes allowed to
defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors
(fixed by statute in different States) without assigning
any cause.

{Principal challenge}, that which the law allows to be
sufficient if found to be true.


Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Challenged}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Challenging}.] [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF.
chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L.
calumniar to attack with false accusations. See {Challenge},
n., and cf. {Calumniate}.]
1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to
defy.

I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by
right of fatherhood. --Locke.

2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by
personal combat.

By this I challenge him to single fight. --Shak.

3. To claim as due; to demand as a right.

Challenge better terms. --Addison.

4. To censure; to blame. [Obs.]

He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged
them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from
them. --Holland.

5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who
attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged
us, with ``Who comes there?''

6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the
accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or
member of a court.

8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the
ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [U.
S.]

{To challenge to the} {array, favor, polls}. See under
{Challenge}, n.


Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. i.
To assert a right; to claim a place.

Where nature doth with merit challenge. --Shak.