a)SAY bite something ↔ back to stop yourself from saying or showing what you really think 强忍住不说[流露]出来
Tamar bit back the retort that sprang to her lips.
塔马已经话到嘴边,却忍住了没有反驳。
b)REVENGEto react strongly and angrily to something 反击,回击
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Determined to bite back at car thieves, he wired his car to an electric fence.
他决心回击盗车贼,把他的汽车连到了电围栏上。
Examples from the Corpus
bite back• But the apple is biting back.• Her teethsank into her bottom lip, biting back a cry, and she winced.• Unfortunately, the very live batbit back, and Osbourne underwent a painful series of precautionaryrabiesinjections.• She bit back on her irritation.• And biting back ... the Whitesnake man plays it again.• But she bit back the words.• She had the insanedesire to tell all that to this man, but she bit back the words.