He wanted to answer back, but he forbore from doing so.

他想顶嘴，但是忍住了。

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He was given the chance to answer back in a radio interview.

在一次广播访谈中他得到了辩白的机会。

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Who dares to answer back when he roars like a lion?

当他像狮子般地咆哮时，谁敢和他顶嘴？

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The answer is no and the reason why goes back to the early days of America's history.

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This seems like a completely Christian answer to Zooey's problem, and we're back on the horns of that dilemma.

这似乎是左伊问题的基督教的回答，我们又回到了两难的境地了。

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But we've just introduced it, so let's go back to the class notes and explain why this is the correct answer.

但是由于我们刚刚开始介绍它，因此让我们回到课堂讲义来解释一下,为什么这个是正确答案。

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Not only did he ask too many open-ended questions that allowed the candidates to wander off onto tangents that were not part of the agenda, he rarely reinforced the need for Romney or Obama to go back to answer the original questions.

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And when moderator Gwen Ifill asked about consumers who face debt or difficulties with their mortgages, she actually asked to change the subject and went back to another answer on energy exploration, which had been fully covered minutes before.

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Look, this is a responsibility that everyone needs to take and to bear, dealing with our deficit and debt -- and going back to my answer to Ed's question about the fact that this President, in the midst of a cataclysmic economic decline, was also, in addition to the keys of the building, handed the largest deficit thus far in history.

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