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 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
别这么说,你不会出丑,凯特琳。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - What looks like a simple throwback to Java's enhanced for loop turns out to be far more powerful than anything the average Java programmer can begin to imagine.
该结构看起来像是Java的增强for循环的简单早期版,但它远比一般的Java编程人员开始设想的更强大。