talk back

英 [tɔːk bæk]

美 [tɔːk bæk]

回嘴; 顶撞; 犟嘴

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 回嘴;顶撞;犟嘴
  If youtalk backto someone in authority such as a parent or teacher, you answer them in a rude way.
  1. How dare you talk back to me!...
     你竟敢跟我顶嘴!
  2. I talked back and asked questions.
     我顶了嘴，反问了几句。

双语例句

• It annoys me the way the children talk back to you like that.
  这些孩子象那样与你顶嘴使我很生气。
• You wouldn't let me talk back then.
  你从来不让我说以前的事。
• Yet now can I talk back to you, even as I am doing here.
  然而如今，我却可以直接答复你们，正如我现在正在做的。
• When he found his two-year-old son learned to talk back, he felt angry and funny.
  当他发现两岁的儿子学会顶嘴了，他觉得又好气又好笑。
• Speaking to your parents, you'd better never talk back.
  跟你父母说话时最好不要回嘴。
• He won't talk back to me, no way.
  他不会顶撞我的，这事没门。
• Melanie, don't talk back to your mother!
  梅拉妮，不许和你妈妈顶嘴！
• He tried to talk back, but his sister vociferously talked him down.
  他想回嘴，但他姐姐大声吵嚷，压倒了他。
• And that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
  而当你跟你母亲顶嘴时，希望她叫你尝一尝象牙肥皂的滋味。
• But I know that your performance will talk back all these things.
  但我坚信你们的表现可以反驳一切。