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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Chinese spokesmen denounced this as a throwback to the days when America thought it could, and should, try to "contain" the People's Republic.
  中国发言人谴责道，美国认为它还应该，可以“包括”中国民国，这是历史的倒退。
• Bernanke is a throwback to a more traditional Fed chairman: smart, dull and straightforward.
  伯南克代表着向一种更为传统美联储主席形象的回归：聪明、古板而坦率。
• Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
  别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。