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throwback

英 [ˈθrəʊbæk]

美 [ˈθroʊbæk]

n.  返祖者; 返祖; 返祖型的东西

复数:throwbacks 

GRE医学

BNC.22673 / COCA.15978

牛津词典

    noun

    • 返祖者;返祖;返祖型的东西
      a person or thing that is similar to sb/sth that existed in the past
      1. The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
        这种汽车的设计回到了20世纪60年代。

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT 复古;回归
      If you say that something is athrowbackto a former time, you mean that it is like something that existed a long time ago.
      1. The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.
        这个大厅的古老图案和彩色玻璃是对过去一个时代风格的回归。

    英英释义

    noun

    • a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
        Synonym:atavismreversion
      1. an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
          Synonym:atavist

        双语例句

        • To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
          在一些人看来,上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退,可能也有自私之嫌。
        • And yet, game elements aside, the film is almost a throwback, resembling the Indiana Jones movies.
          撇开游戏因素不说,该片几乎和印第安纳-琼斯电影如出一辙,算是穿越题材影片。
        • They see me as, as one of those throwback fighters.
          他们看我是我就是,我就是一种有起落的拳手。
        • Yeah, so, first of all, it was interesting, you throwback to HP.
          你回首了惠普的往事,让我深有感触。
        • India-Elephant Howdah Howdah translates as throne, a throwback to the days when the ornate platforms transported India's royalty from one place to the next.
          Howdah被翻译为宝座,把我们带回过去印度王族乘坐这种华丽工具从一个地方去到另一个地方的日子。
        • Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened.
          这也不仅是因为电影。在《哈里·波特》电影开始宣传之前很久就已经有了成群结队的返老还童的读者。
        • The curtains are a throwback to a William Morris design, there are exposed brick walls, and the floor-to-ceiling bathroom tiles are creamy oblongs similar to those in the New York subway.
          房间的窗帘是威廉•莫里斯(WilliamMorris)设计风格的回归。还有祼露的砖墙。浴室墙壁上,从天花到地板都采用奶油色长方形墙砖,这与纽约地铁里倒有几分相似。
        • Life is more wholesome: there, a throwback to simpler times.
          那里的生活更有益于健康,它仿佛使你返回到更加纯朴的原始时代。
        • Bernanke is a throwback to a more traditional Fed chairman: smart, dull and straightforward.
          伯南克代表着向一种更为传统美联储主席形象的回归:聪明、古板而坦率。
        • Chinese spokesmen denounced this as a throwback to the days when America thought it could, and should, try to "contain" the People's Republic.
          中国发言人谴责道,美国认为它还应该,可以“包括”中国民国,这是历史的倒退。