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

• 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。
• 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。
• Bernanke is a throwback to a more traditional Fed chairman: smart, dull and straightforward.
  伯南克代表着向一种更为传统美联储主席形象的回归：聪明、古板而坦率。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• This might seem an unthinkable throwback.
  这看起来似乎是一种不可思议的倒退。
• 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。