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
• an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
  Synonym:atavist

双语例句

• This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
  这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。
• In another throwback, plans are afoot to create a "bad bank" for Dexia's worst assets.
  又是一起复古事件，人们正在制定计划为德克夏的最差资产创建一个“不良债权”。
• It's a throwback to the first weapons our remote ancestors used on the African savannah: Hit the sucker with a rock.
  这是一次大倒退，就像我们在南非大草原的远祖用的第一件武器：用石头扔那些王八蛋吧。
• What the Yankees have here, it appears, is a throwback: A one-time ace in the twilight of his career, aging naturally.
  目前洋基所有的，看起来就像个回传球；一个曾经的王牌进入生涯的尾声，自然的老化。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, inflation is reviving throwback elements of state economic planning.
  同时，通货膨胀也正在“抵消”中央的经济政策。
• 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 one they have here is a Soviet throwback and ultimately no match for conventional navies.
  这个是苏联时代旳产物，跟现在旳常规海军根本不配套。
• For the first time ever, all193 members of the United Nations have signed the traditional Olympic truce, a throwback to the ancient games.
  联合国193个成员国首次共同签署《奥林匹克休战协议》，该协议源自古代奥林匹克。
• 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。