talk back

基本解釋

Don't talk back to your grandpa.
不要對外公頂嘴。
Everyone knows that money talks, but only he, it was said, knew how to talk back.
人人都知道金錢是萬能的，但是只有他，只有他知道怎么反駁這樣的話。
I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
當(dāng)你第一次戀上一個女孩時，我希望你會受到朋友們的嘲弄；而當(dāng)你跟你母親頂嘴時，希望她叫你嘗一嘗象牙肥皂的滋味。

And then maybe ten minutes later I'll be like 'Oh,well, I need to talk to so-and-so,' and so then I'll go back on it, every thirty minutes or something."
And in fact today, right now, we're going to move back the furthest we go, all the way into the nineteenth century to talk about the early Yeats.
實際上今天，現(xiàn)在，我們會回到很早的時候，直到十九世紀(jì),來談?wù)勗缙诘娜~芝。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選
You'll find nothing comparable in Russia, obviously which I'll come back and talk about, or in Prussia, or in France.
而你在俄國卻找不到類似的方式,很顯然我在講到普魯士或法國,那章時也將回顧并談到這一問題
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

Instead, he said, they continued to talk back, disregard his instruction and showboat on the court.
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If you talk back to someone in authority such as a parent or teacher, you answer them in a rude way.