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
- 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。 - 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”。 - 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。 - And yet, game elements aside, the film is almost a throwback, resembling the Indiana Jones movies.
撇开游戏因素不说，该片几乎和印第安纳-琼斯电影如出一辙，算是穿越题材影片。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。 - 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。