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 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。 - 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”。 - 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。 - Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened.
这也不仅是因为电影。在《哈里·波特》电影开始宣传之前很久就已经有了成群结队的返老还童的读者。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。