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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• The Quai Branly museum may be just six years old, but it is in its way old-fashioned, a throwback to a less timorous time when museums were proud to display human scalps and heads shrunken by Amazon tribes ( pictured).
  凯布朗利博物馆可能只有六年的历史，但它的展览方式却有些复古怀旧，回到了过去那种较为大胆的时期：以展出人类的头皮和亚马逊部落的皱缩头颅（如图）为荣。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。