<p>You should provide the context in which this was used. It can be applied to school, work, development, sports teams moving up the leagues, anything.</p>

<p>越级: more than 1 level, skip a grade, leapfrog
挑战: challenge</p>

<p>越级挑战: some kind of test or exam or challenge. If your score is good, you go up more than one level. Could be school, work， just the children's game or whatever.</p>

<p>Not exactly your phrase, but you can see how 'leapfrog' might be used.</p>

<p>The win allowed them to leapfrog three teams to gain second place.</p>

<p>这场胜利使他们连超三个队，跃居第二位。</p>

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Gangosa
<p>The term 越級挑戰 (cross- division challenge) refers to a lower weight class boxer challenges a higher weight class boxer, which is not permitted in an official match. It can only happen in exhibitions.</p>

<p>Chinese use 越級挑戰 metaphorically to describe someone from a lower level challenge someone in the higher level. For example, a 500th ranked tennis player plays against a top ten player, or Team China facing Team Germany in The World Cup could be described as 越級挑戰. </p>

<p>Unlike in boxing where boxers are divided into different weight classes. A 500th ranked tennis player is technically on the same playing field with the top ten players, and Team China is technically on the same playing field with Team Germany, but we all know the gap between the higher ranked and the lower ranked ones is as wide as the gap between men and boys. Therefore, metaphorically, we can translate <strong>越級挑戰</strong> as " <strong>challenge the big boys</strong>" or "<strong>David challenges Goliath</strong>" in English.</p>

<p><em>I didn't say Team China cannot win against Team Germany, but if they won, their victory would be compared to David defeated Goliath for sure.</em></p>

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<p>What is 越级挑战 in one English vocabulary form and if possible, also in idiom?</p>

<p>I use google translate and it give me a ridiculous answer: the leap frog challenge. </p>

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I don't know how to say it in the most apt English idiom, but it would be like someone who is in Minor League Baseball but tries to play in Major League (with no connotation on whether he is good at it -- but just the fact that he is crossing into the higher level).  Literally the four characters mean "crossing the level" and "challenge"
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Perhaps there isn't one English idiom that directly matches this Chinese phrase.  But if you give me an example with the phrase in it, I can try translating it for you.
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What is 越级挑战 in one English vocabulary form and if possible, also in idiom?
# What is 越级挑战 in one English vocabulary form and if possible, also in idiom?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-14)

What is 越级挑战 in one English vocabulary form and if possible, also in idiom?

I use google translate and it give me a ridiculous answer: the leap frog challenge.

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> **username_1**: I don't know how to say it in the most apt English idiom, but it would be like someone who is in Minor League Baseball but tries to play in Major League (with no connotation on whether he is good at it -- but just the fact that he is crossing into the higher level).  Literally the four characters mean "crossing the level" and "challenge"  
> **username_1**: Perhaps there isn't one English idiom that directly matches this Chinese phrase.  But if you give me an example with the phrase in it, I can try translating it for you.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-15. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

You should provide the context in which this was used. It can be applied to school, work, development, sports teams moving up the leagues, anything.

越级: more than 1 level, skip a grade, leapfrog
挑战: challenge

越级挑战: some kind of test or exam or challenge. If your score is good, you go up more than one level. Could be school, work， just the children's game or whatever.

Not exactly your phrase, but you can see how 'leapfrog' might be used.

The win allowed them to leapfrog three teams to gain second place.

这场胜利使他们连超三个队，跃居第二位。


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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-01-15. Score: 1

The term 越級挑戰 (cross- division challenge) refers to a lower weight class boxer challenges a higher weight class boxer, which is not permitted in an official match. It can only happen in exhibitions.

Chinese use 越級挑戰 metaphorically to describe someone from a lower level challenge someone in the higher level. For example, a 500th ranked tennis player plays against a top ten player, or Team China facing Team Germany in The World Cup could be described as 越級挑戰.

Unlike in boxing where boxers are divided into different weight classes. A 500th ranked tennis player is technically on the same playing field with the top ten players, and Team China is technically on the same playing field with Team Germany, but we all know the gap between the higher ranked and the lower ranked ones is as wide as the gap between men and boys. Therefore, metaphorically, we can translate **越級挑戰** as " **challenge the big boys**" or "**David challenges Goliath**" in English.

*I didn't say Team China cannot win against Team Germany, but if they won, their victory would be compared to David defeated Goliath for sure.*


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