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

• 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。
• How could you talk back to your boss like that?
  你怎么能那样与你上司顶嘴？
• 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。
• You shouldn't talk back to your grandmother.
  你不该跟你奶奶顶嘴。
• Not wanting to talk back either, he simply glared.
  也不愿还口。他只瞪了她一眼。
• If my children talk back to me, I get teed off.
  我孩子要是跟顶嘴，我就发火。
• 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。
• Speaking to your parents, you'd better never talk back.
  跟你父母说话时最好不要回嘴。
• Don't you talk back to me or I'll hit you.
  别还嘴，否则我揍你。
• She'd just talk back to you.
  她也会反过来和你聊。