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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

        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • Indeed, it is the throwback quality that makes him valuable to Manchester United.
          事实上,对曼联而言,重返巅峰的能力让欧文具备了价值。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。