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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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”。