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
- The film seems to be a throwback to the1970s.
这部电影好像是对20世纪70年代的重现。 - 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。 - Meanwhile, inflation is reviving throwback elements of state economic planning.
同时,通货膨胀也正在“抵消”中央的经济政策。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说,你不会出丑,凯特琳。 - 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”。 - The one they have here is a Soviet throwback and ultimately no match for conventional navies.
这个是苏联时代旳产物,跟现在旳常规海军根本不配套。