Apparently the boy had a longstanding reputation for bad behaviour and his mum for even worse behaviour if he was challenged.
很显然，这个男孩恶行多端的臭名流传已久，他妈妈亦是如此，如果儿子受到质疑，妈妈的行为会更恶劣。
I was challenged to jump across the stream.
有人激我跳过那条小溪。
In other words, our immunity was challenged.
在其他的文章里，我们的免疫力是难题。
The religion was challenged but it has come out on top.
他们的信仰曾被挑战但是依旧坚定。
His tail is a bit high on this picture because he was challenged by another dog.
这张照片中它的尾巴翘得有点高，是因为受到了另一只狗的挑衅。
Our environment and economy was challenged gravely because resource was consumed in excess.
资源的过度消耗使人们的生存环境和经济运行受到严峻的挑战。
But this version of events was challenged after witnesses recognised the dead man from photographs that were published on Friday.
但是这种说法受到了从周五出版的照片中认出死者的目击者的怀疑。
She was challenged on her merger plan with Compaq: “The fact that the tech industry might have to consolidate was viewed as heresy.”
她与康柏的合并计划受到挑战：“科技工业可能要联合，被视为异端之说。”
That study was challenged because data were collected at several institutions, and thus had numerous possibly confounding variables.
由于此前的研究数据是从数座医院获取的，其中难免会混杂一些影响研究结果的变数，因此，该调查的结果受到了质疑。
The WorldCom settlement was challenged this week by several investment Banks, which are also defendants in the suit brought by shareholders.
本周WorldCom一案的赔偿方案就引起了几家投资银行的质疑，这几家银行也被股东告上了法庭，成为本案的被告。
Physicist Werner Heisenberg, left, was challenged by the philosopher Karl Popper, right, to defend his paradoxical uncertainty principle.
物理学家维尔纳·海森堡(左)受到哲学家卡尔·波普尔(右)的挑战，针对其测不准原理的悖论。
A Hare having ridiculed the slow movements of a Tortoise, was challenged by the latter to run a race, a Fox to go to the goal and be the judge.
野兔嘲笑乌龟爬得很慢，乌龟向野兔发起挑战要和它赛跑。狐狸裁判在终点等着他们。
In a celebrated event while touring in Berlin in 1889, she was challenged by the young Kaiser Wilhelm to shoot a cigarette held in his own lips.
一八八九年，安妮巡迴演出，来到柏林，其间一件事脍炙人口：德国年轻君主威廉要安妮枪击他叼着的香烟。
Confucians conducted the state's praying for rain since Han, but from middle Tang on, the traditional structure of knowledge and power was challenged.
汉代以来儒家一直控制着国家祈雨的权力，但中唐以后这种知识与权力的结构受到了新的挑战。
The idea began when Thompson was challenged by cycling enthusiast friend James Tully to build a wooden bike while watching the Tour of Britain last year.
汤普森的的朋友詹姆斯·图里是一个自行车狂热爱好者，在去年观看完英国自行车巡回赛后就挑战汤普森，就挑战他，问他能否制造一辆木质自行车。 于是造一辆木制自行车的想法就诞生了。
Some years back, a brave young boy in a small town was challenged by his friends to fix a nail in a tree situated in the middle of a burial ground at midnight.
从前，一个小镇上有个年轻而执拗的男孩，为了挑战他的固执，他的朋友和他打赌说他不敢在半夜时分将一个钉子钉在墓地中央的一棵树上。
Mano a file in the high ratings on television shows on the TV, because the words sharp , superior appearance and be remembered, was challenged as being attacked.
马诺在一档收视率极高的电视交友节目上，因为言语犀利、外形出众而被记住、被质疑、被抨击。
Speaking in Soweto to a small audience and on screens to millions watching around the continent, Obama was challenged on why he was not visiting Kenya, his ancestral home.
奥巴马在索韦托当着一小群观众演讲，非洲大陆成千上万人则通过电视转播观看了这场演讲，有人问他为何不到祖籍肯尼亚访问，这可是个棘手问题。
But that assumption was challenged in an unexpected way by a group of researchers from Purdue University who at the time were more interested in random Numbers than nuclear decay.
但是普渡大学的一组研究者用意想不到的方式挑战了衰变速率恒定这个假设。相比于原子核衰变，他们对随机数更感兴趣。
Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic theory dominated the field for many years before it was challenged by Behavioral and cognitive therapy and humanistic psychology in the mid-20th century.
弗洛伊德的心理分析学说在很多年都占据主导地位，后来20世纪中期受到行为认知疗法和人文主义心理学的挑战。
Stand in China's shoes for a moment, if it was the US who was challenged with such provocation, it would have long resorted to force to recover the illegally occupied islands and reefs.
换位思考，如果美国受到这样的挑衅，恐怕早就大动干戈，武力收回被侵占岛礁了。
After the crisis, the United States, European Union and other countries strengthened the regulation of credit rating agencies which was challenged in the crisis by using legislative measures.
危机发生后，美国、欧盟等通过立法手段对在危机中遭受质疑的信用评级机构加强监管。
There was a strong response about Gettier's two counter-examples in the British and American philosophical circles, and the classical definition of knowledge was challenged by Gettier problems.
盖梯尔问题的出现在知识论领域引起了强烈的反响，构成了对知识论传统分析的冲击。
The move was immediately challenged by two of the republics.
这项提案立即遭到了这两个共和国的质疑。
The story was completely untrue and was successfully challenged in court.
此案情纯属捏造，已在法庭上被揭穿。
The first way in which Dawson challenged the mainstream view was to address the association between autism and low IQ.
道森挑战主流观点的第一个方式就是致力于研究自闭症和低智商之间的联系。
But on the rest of the report, I don't think it was really challenged.
但在报告的其余部分，我不认为这是真正的挑战。
It was a goal that no one challenged and a process that never ended.
从没有人对那目标提出过质疑，也从没有人可以抵制那目标的诱惑。
Another viewer, a doctor, challenged whether there really was scientific evidence that pentapeptides reduced lines and wrinkles.
另一位医生观众质疑五肽能够减少细纹和褶皱的科学依据性。
Twitter, not seen having a bright future in the past, was frequently challenged by the question "Who cares what I'm doing 24 hours a day?"
曾经不被看好的Twitter，最常为人质疑的就是，“究竟有谁会在乎我一天24小时都在做些什么？”
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