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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The hastily assembled stimulus packages were a throwback to naive Keynesianism.
而匆忙出台刺激计划，则是向幼稚的凯恩斯主义的大退步。 - 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。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。 - 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。 - 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”。 - 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。 - 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。