throwback
英 [ˈθrəʊbæk]
美 [ˈθroʊbæk]
n. 返祖者; 返祖; 返祖型的东西
复数：throwbacks
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- 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。
- The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
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.- 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。
- The hall is a throwback to another era with its old prints and stained-glass.
英英释义
noun
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。 - 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。 - Far from being a reactionary throwback, a version of nine-to-five is being practised in one of the coolest companies on earth.
朝九晚五远非被动的还击，地球上最酷的一家公司正在实践。 - 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。