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

        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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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 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。
        • 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 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。
        • Life is more wholesome: there, a throwback to simpler times.
          那里的生活更有益于健康,它仿佛使你返回到更加纯朴的原始时代。
        • 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。
        • 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。