1PHRASAL VERB 强忍住 If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it. 强忍住 [literary]
Susan bit back the words she would like to have said. [VERBPREP. noun (not pronoun)]
苏珊话到嘴边又咽了回去。
A scream rose to her lips again. She had to bite it back. [VERB noun PREP.]
她想尖叫,又不得不忍了回去。
2PHRASAL VERB 反击;回嘴;反唇相讥 If a person or a group of people who have been defeated, criticized, or insulted bite back, they respond strongly or angrily. 反击;回嘴;反唇相讥 [journalism]
He is quickly on the attack, biting back at the questioner until the original question is lost. [VERBPREP.]