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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• In the age of cloud computing that is just dawning, Apple, with its reliance on hardware sales and a technology model that depends on software running on client devices, looks like a throwback.
  云计算时代已拉开帷幕，而苹果仍依赖于硬件销售、以及靠客户端设备运行软件的技术模式，这看上去像是在逆时代潮流而动。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
  这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。
• 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。