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
- 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。 - 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”。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.
他一点也不受欢迎，他有点像是退回到传统典型的日本首相，面无表情地身着灰色西装。 - 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。 - This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。