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

• 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。
• Critics say displaying dwarfs is at best misguided and at worst immoral, a throwback to times when freak shows pandered to people's morbid curiosity.
  批评者说，展示矮星是最错误的，从最坏的不道德，一个怪物时显示迎合人们的病态的好奇心时代倒退。
• 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。
• 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。
• His sentiments were a throwback to the old colonial days.
  他的观点还是从前殖民时代的那种观点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。