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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.
在一些人看来,上述观点就算不是朝着里根时代旧自由市场观点的倒退,可能也有自私之嫌。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。