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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's a throwback to the first weapons our remote ancestors used on the African savannah: Hit the sucker with a rock.
  这是一次大倒退，就像我们在南非大草原的远祖用的第一件武器：用石头扔那些王八蛋吧。
• 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。
• 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。
• Come on now, you ain't hardly no throwback, caitlin.
  别这么说，你不会出丑，凯特琳。