Challenge

Definition

challenge /'tʃælÇndʒ/ n ၁။ ~ (to sb) (to do sth) စိန္ေခၚျခင္း။ issue/accept/meet a challenge. ၂။ စြမ္းရည္သတၱိကို စမ္းသပ္ ျခင္း။ She likes her job to be a challenge. ❍ Reducing the gap between rich and poor is one of the main challenges facing the government. ၃။ ~ (to sth) ေစာဒကတက္ ျခင္း။ a serious challenge to the President's authority ❍ His statements are often open to challenge. ၄။ လံုၿခံဳေရးက ရပ္ခိုင္းၿပီး မည္သူလဲဟုေမးျခင္း။ The sentry gave the challenge, ‘Who goes there?’ v ၁။ ~ sb (to sth) ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရန္စိန္ေခၚသည္။ challenge sb to a duel/a game of tennis ❍ She challenged the newspaper to prove its story. ၂။ ေစာဒကဝင္သည္။ challenge sb's authority/right to do sth ❍ challenge a claim/an assertion/a verdict ❍ This new discovery challenges traditional beliefs. ၃။ အရည္အခ်င္းကို အကဲစမ္းသည္။ The job doesn't really challenge him. ၄။ ရပ္ခိုင္းၿပီး မည္သူ မည္ဝါျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေမးသည္။ The sentry challenged the stranger at the gates. ❏ challenger n စိန္ေခၚသူ။ the challenger for the heavyweight title. ❏ challenging adj ခက္ခဲေသာ။ အစြမ္းျပရေသာ။ အကဲစမ္း ေသာ။ a challenging assignment/job/test.

Examples

1. I was bored with my job and felt I needed a new challenge.
2. [meet a challenge] : Are western nations ready to meet the enormous environmental challenges that lie ahead?
3. [challenge of] : We were all keen walkers
4. and enjoyed the challenge of this remote place.
5. [the challenge is to do something] : The challenge for policy-makers is to achieve economic growth without damaging the environment.
6. [face a challenge] : The new government faces the daunting challenge of completing the building on time.
7. He began a legal challenge to clear his name.
8. [challenge to] : There seems to be no significant challenge to the party’s free-market ideology.
9. [pose/present a challenge to something] : Recent discoveries pose a serious challenge to accepted views on the age of the universe.
10. [challenge to] : The strike was seen as a direct challenge to the authority of the government.
11. [mount a challenge] : They have failed to mount a serious challenge to the existing leadership.
12. [challenge for] : Federer returned to make a major challenge for the Wimbledon title.
13. [issue a challenge] : One of the men issued the challenge
14. ‘I’ll take on any two of you.’
15. One of the golfers competing in the Million Dollar Challenge