talk back

基本解释

Don't talk back to your grandpa.
不要对外公顶嘴。
Everyone knows that money talks, but only he, it was said, knew how to talk back.
人人都知道金钱是万能的，但是只有他，只有他知道怎么反驳这样的话。
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.
当你第一次恋上一个女孩时，我希望你会受到朋友们的嘲弄；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。

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.
实际上今天，现在，我们会回到很早的时候，直到十九世纪,来谈谈早期的叶芝。
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You'll find nothing comparable in Russia, obviously which I'll come back and talk about, or in Prussia, or in France.
而你在俄国却找不到类似的方式,很显然我在讲到普鲁士或法国,那章时也将回顾并谈到这一问题
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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.