throwback
英 [ˈθrəʊbæk]
美 [ˈθroʊbæk]
n. 返祖者; 返祖; 返祖型的东西
复数:throwbacks
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- 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。
- The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
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.- 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。
- The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.
英英释义
noun
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
双语例句
- It appears to be a throwback to prehistoric times that it has somehow managed to survive.
不知什么原因它竟然能够存活下来,这看来是对史前时期的一种返祖现象。 - 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 Quai Branly museum may be just six years old, but it is in its way old-fashioned, a throwback to a less timorous time when museums were proud to display human scalps and heads shrunken by Amazon tribes ( pictured).
凯布朗利博物馆可能只有六年的历史,但它的展览方式却有些复古怀旧,回到了过去那种较为大胆的时期:以展出人类的头皮和亚马逊部落的皱缩头颅(如图)为荣。 - 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。 - 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。 - Far from being a reactionary throwback, a version of nine-to-five is being practised in one of the coolest companies on earth.
朝九晚五远非被动的还击,地球上最酷的一家公司正在实践。 - What looks like a simple throwback to Java's enhanced for loop turns out to be far more powerful than anything the average Java programmer can begin to imagine.
该结构看起来像是Java的增强for循环的简单早期版,但它远比一般的Java编程人员开始设想的更强大。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说,你不会出丑,凯特琳。 - 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。 - The film seems to be a throwback to the1970s.
这部电影好像是对20世纪70年代的重现。