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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

        • 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。
        • 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。
        • It appears to be a throwback to prehistoric times that it has somehow managed to survive.
          不知什么原因它竟然能够存活下来,这看来是对史前时期的一种返祖现象。
        • 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”。
        • 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。
        • Yeah, so, first of all, it was interesting, you throwback to HP.
          你回首了惠普的往事,让我深有感触。
        • 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。
        • This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
          这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。
        • He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.
          他一点也不受欢迎,他有点像是退回到传统典型的日本首相,面无表情地身着灰色西装。
        • 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。