Translation for "talk back" to spanish
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verb
Not to talk back to nobody.
No replicar a nadie.
Not talking back and not fighting.
Sin replicar y sin pelear.
There is no one to agree, disagree, talk back.
No había nadie que se fuera a mostrar de acuerdo, o en desacuerdo, ni a replicar.
Kyunghee averted her eyes, trying to keep from talking back to him.
Kyunghee apartó la mirada, intentando no replicar.
She gave him her undivided attention, knowing that he needed a sounding board that didn't talk back.
Le dedicó toda su atención, sabiendo que necesitaba hablar con alguien que no le replicara.
The National Police Commissioner was known for not liking to talk to people who were capable of asking questions or talking back.
El comisario nacional de Policía era conocido porque no le gustaba hablar con gente capaz de hacer preguntas o replicar.
I just can’t think exactly what that boy’s trouble was about—except maybe talking back to a white man out of turn. Anyhow.
No, no recuerdo exactamente en qué lío se metió el chico, lo más seguro es que replicara a un blanco cuando no debía.
If it weren’t for him, white folks would never know the stupid shit they do upsets us, and Black folks would get madder and madder because they can’t risk talking back.
Si no fuera por él, los blancos nunca sabrían que nos molestan sus memeces, y los Negros se enfadarían cada vez más porque no podrían arriesgarse a replicar.
“I think what happens to niggers is they come up here and find out they can talk back to you,” Clement said, “so all they do then’s argue.
—Yo creo que lo que les pasa a los negros —dijo Clement—, es que vienen aquí, y descubren que a usted le pueden replicar. Y entonces lo único que hacen es discutir.
Yes, talked to it as if it could talk back. And Latin of all things.
—Sí, hablaba con el a como si fuera a responder en cualquier momento. Y en latín.
No, we must send people so that they can be there to listen, and perhaps talk back.
No, tenemos que mandar gente para que puedan estar allí y escuchar, y tal vez responder.
Once I’d reached the talking-back age, I used to say,I never asked to be born, as if that were a clinching argument;
En cuanto alcancé la edad suficiente para responder, solía decirle: «Yo nunca pedí nacer», como si fuera un argumento contundente;
It seems fitting that Syberberg’s dramaturgy consists in talk addressed to those who cannot talk back: to the dead (one can put words in their mouths) and to one’s own daughter (who has no lines).
Parece apropiado que la dramaturgia de Syberberg consista en alocuciones dirigidas a quienes no pueden responder: a los muertos (se pueden poner palabras en sus bocas) y a la propia hija (que no tiene diálogo).
Free of Alois’ wrath, he also felt more comfortable with his studies, and soon became more ready to talk back to his teachers, particularly one unhappy middle-aged instructor who was there to conduct religious instruction for several hours each week.
Libre de la ira de Alois, también se sentía más a gusto con sus estudios y pronto se acostumbró a responder a sus profesores, sobre todo a un instructor de edad mediana, especialmente desdichado, que se ocupaba de enseñar religión varias horas por semana.
Oh, I wish I could die this very minute and go to heaven before I commit all the sins I’ll probably commit when I get the chance, like having beautiful dresses and shoes and talking back to the Master and washing my hair every day in perfume.”
Oh, desearía morirme en este momento, así iría al cielo antes de cometer todos los pecados que posiblemente cometeré en cuanto tenga oportunidad, como: tener vestidos preciosos y zapatos y responder al Maestro y lavarme el pelo cada día con perfume.
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