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

• 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。
• The curtains are a throwback to a William Morris design, there are exposed brick walls, and the floor-to-ceiling bathroom tiles are creamy oblongs similar to those in the New York subway.
  房间的窗帘是威廉•莫里斯（WilliamMorris）设计风格的回归。还有祼露的砖墙。浴室墙壁上，从天花到地板都采用奶油色长方形墙砖，这与纽约地铁里倒有几分相似。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
  别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。
• 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。